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Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2006 15:55:37 +0000 From: Alan <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk> To: Al Boldi <a1426z@...ab.com> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: additional oom-killer tuneable worth submitting? > What I understood from Arjan is that the problem isn't swapspace, but rather > that shared-libs are implement via a COW trick, which always overcommits, no > matter what. The zero overcommit layer accounts address space not pages. > Are you saying there is some new no-overcommit functionality in 2.6.19, or > has this been there before? Red Hat Enterprise Linux for a very long time, got merged upstream a long long time ago to. Then got various fixes along the way. It's old functionality. Alan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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