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From: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] strict VM overcommit
To: bunk@fs.tum.de (Adrian Bunk)
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 20:32:57 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: rml@tech9.net (Robert Love), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, alan@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.4.44.0207182359300.17300-100000@mimas.fachschaften.tu-muenchen.de> from "Adrian Bunk" at Jul 19, 2002 12:08:30 AM
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> 
> How is assured that it's impossible to OOM when the amount of memory
> shrinks?
> 
> IOW:
> - allocate very much memory
> - "swapoff -a"

Make swapoff -a return -ENOMEM

I've not done this on the basis that this is root specific stupidity and 
generally shouldnt be protected against
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