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Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 00:20:52 +0200
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.5-rmap: VM strict overcommit
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Hi!

> > In what scenario can "strict overcommit" kill?
> 
> When the kernel grabs over 50% of RAM. Remember that includes page
> tables. I've seen the kernel taking 35% of RAM.

But it could happen that kernel would attempt to allocate 101% of RAM
for page tables, right? At that even "paranoid overcommit" might be
OOM, right?
								Pavel
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