Re: Pre-allocation of shared memory ...

On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 07:35:20PM -0400, Doug McNaught wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
>
> > Is there no sysctl way to disable such kills?
>
> The -ac kernel patches from Alan Cox have a sysctl to control memory
> overcommit--you can set it to track memory usage and fail allocations
> when memory runs out, rather than the random kill behavior. I'm not
> sure whether those have made it into the stock kernel yet, but the
> vendor kernels (such as Red Hat's) might have it too.

Yeah, I see it in the Mandrake kernel. But it's not in stock 2.4.19, so
you can't assume everybody has it.

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