Re: Avoiding OOM on overcommit...?

From: Alan Curry (pacman-kernel@cqc.com)
Date: Fri Mar 24 2000 - 16:18:16 EST

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David Whysong writes the following:
>/*
> * Ok, demand-loading was easy, shared pages a little bit tricker. Shared
> * pages started 02.12.91, seems to work. - Linus.
> *
> * Tested sharing by executing about 30 /bin/sh: under the old kernel it
> * would have taken more than the 6M I have free, but it worked well as
> * far as I could see.

Are you sure that doesn't refer to sharing of text (readonly) pages? That is
not overcommitment.

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