[Gllug] Forcing CPU and Mem limits on a process

Nix nix at esperi.org.uk
Sun Feb 13 16:53:30 UTC 2005


On Fri, 11 Feb 2005, Jack Richards said:
> overcommit mem is a great spead improver, however don't use it if you don't 
> have enough ram, otherwise the kernel OOM killer kicks in and you start 
> getting unexpected results  

Er, what results would you expect if you tried to actually use more
mem+swap than you had? I'm having trouble thinking of non-surprising
semantics here...

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