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Memory overcommit

Memory overcommit

Posted Mar 16, 2011 12:19 UTC (Wed) by epa (subscriber, #39769)
In reply to: Memory overcommit by rvfh
Parent article: Delaying the OOM killer

Isn't that the point? You have three gigabytes of RAM, more than enough to give every application all it needs and do so in a guaranteed way - not 'you can probably have this but you might be randomly killed later on depending on what else happens'.


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