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Re: [PATCH] mm: add config option to select the initial overcommit mode

From Mason <slash.tmp@free.fr>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH] mm: add config option to select the initial overcommit mode
Date 2016-05-17 11:10 +0200
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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.

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