Re: [PATCH] Kernels Out Of Memoy(OOM) killer Problem ?

From: Alan Cox
Date: Tue Aug 09 2005 - 11:13:56 EST


On Maw, 2005-08-09 at 16:55 +0200, Thomas Habets wrote:
> Once upon a midnight dreary, Alan Cox pondered, weak and weary:
> > 0 - overcommit except if something is obviously silly
> > 1 - overcommit always (some scientific workloads)
> > 2 - don't overcommit (databases etc)
>
> Exactly. Which is what the code and D/sysctl/vm.txt say, and why the
> description in D/filesystems/proc.txt is a lying POS that needs to be
> *shining blue led in everyones eyes* Exterminated before more people are
> sucked into its world of lies.

Please submit a patch to fix it

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