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Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 13:54:45 +0000
From: Francois romieu <romieu@ensta.fr>
To: aprasad@in.ibm.com
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Subject: Re: reliability of linux-vm subsystem
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The Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 05:29:48PM +0530, aprasad@in.ibm.com wrote :
[...]
> When i run following code many times.
> System becomes useless till all of the instance of this programming are
> killed by vmm.
[malloc bomb]

Check some archives of the linux-kernel list for "overcommit".

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