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Subject: Re: [PATCH] strict VM overcommit
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>
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On Sun, 2002-07-21 at 13:46, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> With enough stupidity root can always trash his system but if as Robert
> says the state of the system will be that "no allocations will succeed"
> which seems to be a synonymous for "the system is practically dead" it is
> IMHO a good idea to let "swapoff -a return -ENOMEM".

In the overcommit mode I already suggested that. An administrator can
turn off overcommit protection if he really really needs to swapoff
regardless of the consequences (eg failing swap disk)

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