Re: tmpfs and the OOM killer

[Alan Cox]

> > 0 - try and spot obviously dumb allocations
> > 1 - anything goes
> > 2 - strictly control resource commit
> 
>   I deduce that a fail-safe application must scanf overcommit_memory, warn 
> the user and waitpid.

If you are building a fail safe system you need to look a bit beyond out
of memory handling settings - power supplies, failover, fault tolerance
requirements, error detection (eg ECC ram), raid arrays over
non-electrically conductive links etc.

Alan
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