Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269262AbUI3N7v (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Sep 2004 09:59:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269277AbUI3N7v (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Sep 2004 09:59:51 -0400 Received: from clock-tower.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:55437 "EHLO localhost.localdomain") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269262AbUI3Nzt (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Sep 2004 09:55:49 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] overcommit symbolic constants From: Alan Cox To: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl Cc: akpm@osdl.org, torvalds@osdl.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1096548791.19269.5.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2) Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 13:53:12 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 616 Lines: 14 On Iau, 2004-09-30 at 14:41, Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote: > Played a bit with overcommit the past hour. > Am not entirely satisfied with the no overcommit mode 2 - > programs segfault when the system is close to that boundary. Not really a suprise. Very few programs handle stack growth faults. Hence the docs comment about mmapping stacks privately for critical code. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/