Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 18:48:17 +0100
From: Willy Tarreau <willy@w.ods.org>
To: "Barry K. Nathan" <barryn@pobox.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com,
       alan@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] strict VM overcommit accounting for 2.4.32/2.4.33-pre1
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On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 11:44:01PM -0800, Barry K. Nathan wrote:
> This patch adds strict VM overcommit accounting to the mainline 2.4
> kernel, thus allowing overcommit to be truly disabled. This feature
> has been in 2.4-ac, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (RHEL 3) vendor kernels,
> and 2.6 for a long while.

Many thanks, I'm impatient to try it ! I tried to backport it in the
past but miserably failed as I don't understand those areas well. I'm
interested in checking that a buggy service cannot eat all the RAM an
bring the machine to death.

Cheers,
Willy

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