Chris Friesen wrote:

If you have real, true strict overcommit, then it can cause you to have 
errors much earlier than expected.

I was referring to the "strict overcommit" mode described in 
Documentation/vm/overcommit-accounting. To me, it sounded like it was 
describing modes that were alternatives to the proposed kernel panic on 
oom, and I was merely suggesting we use the same /proc/sys/vm method to 
specify oom behavior (maybe a string rather than numeric codes in case 
we have several such options in the future). Apologies if this is not 
related to what Rusty is talking about.

Thanks,
Rahul
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rahul@genebrew.com
http://www.genebrew.com/

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