Re: [PATCH] strict VM overcommit

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Sun Jul 21 2002 - 11:46:35 EST


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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