"A month of sundays ago Richard Gooch wrote:"
> Look, I think it would be nice you you could provably ensure that
> processes can be made safe from OOM. Some people will like that. But
> until a lightweight, effective scheme is proposed that can support it,
> I think we should steer clear of ad-hoc solutions that only give half
> guarantees. It's better not to claim something at all than claim it
> and people find out later it's not true.
I believe that physical backing in swap for a processes stack pages is
such a guarantee.
Peter
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