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From: Mason <slash.tmp@free.fr>
To: Sebastian Frias <sf84@laposte.net>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: add config option to select the initial overcommit mode
Date: Tue, 17 May 2016 11:03:40 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <573ADE6C.4040804@free.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5731CC6E.3080807@laposte.net>

On 10/05/2016 13:56, Sebastian Frias wrote:

> Currently the initial value of the overcommit mode is OVERCOMMIT_GUESS.
> However, on embedded systems it is usually better to disable overcommit
> to avoid waking up the OOM-killer and its well known undesirable
> side-effects.

There is an interesting article on LWN:

Toward more predictable and reliable out-of-memory handling
https://lwn.net/Articles/668126/

Regards.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2016-05-17  9:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-05-10 11:56 [PATCH] mm: add config option to select the initial overcommit mode Sebastian Frias
2016-05-10 12:00 ` Fwd: " Sebastian Frias
2016-05-10 12:39   ` Andy Whitcroft
2016-05-10 13:02     ` Sebastian Frias
2016-05-13  8:04 ` Michal Hocko
2016-05-13  8:44   ` Mason
2016-05-13  9:52     ` Michal Hocko
2016-05-13 10:18       ` Mason
2016-05-13 10:42         ` Sebastian Frias
2016-05-13 11:44         ` Michal Hocko
2016-05-13 12:15           ` Mason
2016-05-13 14:01             ` Michal Hocko
2016-05-13 14:15               ` Sebastian Frias
2016-05-13 15:04               ` One Thousand Gnomes
2016-05-13 15:37                 ` Sebastian Frias
2016-05-13 15:43                   ` One Thousand Gnomes
2016-05-17  8:24                     ` Sebastian Frias
2016-05-17  8:57                       ` Michal Hocko
2016-05-17 16:16                         ` Sebastian Frias
2016-05-17 17:29                           ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2016-05-18 15:19                             ` Sebastian Frias
2016-05-18 16:28                               ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2016-05-17 20:16                           ` Michal Hocko
2016-05-18 15:18                             ` Sebastian Frias
2016-05-19  7:14                               ` Michal Hocko
2016-05-13 17:01                   ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2016-05-13 13:27         ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2016-05-13  9:52     ` Sebastian Frias
2016-05-13 12:00       ` Michal Hocko
2016-05-13 12:39         ` Sebastian Frias
2016-05-13 13:11           ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2016-05-13 13:32             ` Sebastian Frias
2016-05-13 13:51               ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2016-05-13 14:35                 ` Sebastian Frias
2016-05-13 14:54                   ` Michal Hocko
2016-05-13 15:15                   ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2016-05-13 13:34             ` Sebastian Frias
2016-05-13 14:14               ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2016-05-13 14:23                 ` Sebastian Frias
2016-05-13 15:02                   ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2016-05-13 15:01               ` One Thousand Gnomes
2016-05-13 15:15                 ` Sebastian Frias
2016-05-13 15:25                   ` Michal Hocko
2016-05-13 14:51           ` Michal Hocko
2016-05-13 14:59             ` Mason
2016-05-13 15:11               ` One Thousand Gnomes
2016-05-13 15:26                 ` Michal Hocko
2016-05-13 15:32                 ` Sebastian Frias
2016-05-13 15:10             ` Sebastian Frias
2016-05-13 15:41               ` One Thousand Gnomes
2016-05-23 13:11                 ` Sebastian Frias
2016-05-17  9:03 ` Mason [this message]

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