Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 02:42:06 +0100 From: Thomas Hurst <tom.hurst@clara.net> To: Nate Eldredge <neldredge@math.ucsd.edu> Cc: Yuri <yuri@rawbw.com>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why kernel kills processes that run out of memory instead of just failing memory allocation system calls? Message-ID: <20090522014206.GA62573@voi.aagh.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.64.0905202344420.1483@zeno.ucsd.edu> References: <4A14F58F.8000801@rawbw.com> <Pine.GSO.4.64.0905202344420.1483@zeno.ucsd.edu>
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* Nate Eldredge (neldredge@math.ucsd.edu) wrote: > There may be a way to enable the conservative behavior; I know Linux > has an option to do this, but am not sure about FreeBSD. I seem to remember a patch to disable overcommit. Here we go: http://people.freebsd.org/~kib/overcommit/ -- Thomas 'Freaky' Hurst http://hur.st/
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