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Blocking on allocation failure - WTF?

Posted Mar 11, 2011 23:57 UTC (Fri) by giraffedata (subscriber, #1954)
In reply to: Blocking on allocation failure - WTF? by dgm
Parent article: Delaying the OOM killer

So apparently it's not only useful but critical.

Isn't the problem just that you adjusted /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory without making the corresponding adjustment in the amount of swap space?

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