Re: Memory overcommitting (was Re: http://www.redhat.com/redhat/)

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Thu, 20 Feb 1997 18:40:19 +0000 (GMT)


> This check, then, catches memory allocation problems in well-behaved
> programs ---- 99.97% of the time. Is it possible for a malicious
> programmer to devices a way to bring the system to its knees? Yes. But

Its a good point to note that even this check is to conservative for some
of the extreme fortran matrix computation folks, and there are several
Linux SMP boxes running with that check disabled. So whoever looks at this
put a tuning knob in /proc

Alan