In article <linux.kernel.Pine.LNX.4.10.10003171319000.3718-100000@dax.joh.cam.ac.uk>,
James Sutherland <jas88@cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, Rik van Riel wrote:
>> Erhmm, sorry that I have to say this Paul, but this
>> sounds like non-overcommit is about shifting the blame
>> and not about fixing the problem...
>In fact, it makes the problem worse.
If the problem is an intruder on your system who is attempting a
deliberate denial of service attack, maybe. If the problem is a
program allocating more memory than there is in the system and
making a different program die because of the overcommit,
non-overcommit is the best solution to this feature.
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david parsons \bi/ though the rationales for overcommit are interesting.
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