Re: Avoiding OOM on overcommit...?

From: James Sutherland (jas88@cam.ac.uk)
Date: Mon Mar 20 2000 - 08:42:00 EST


>It all depends on the application. I have seen embeded systems that
>could cause a loss of life on failure. I have worked on some that
>almost cost the job of the manager who sent it out.

Definitely not the target market of the standard Linux kernel. While I
like Linux, I don't want to find myself on a penguin-powered life
support system. Equally, I don't want to run a mission-critical
embedded OS on my desktop PC.

(Perhaps something like RTLinux could address these problems?)

James.

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