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Memory overcommit

Memory overcommit

Posted Mar 16, 2011 17:43 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: Memory overcommit by epa
Parent article: Delaying the OOM killer

I'd say that you want to require 5% or whatever for root-owned apps *that belong to a terminal*. This stops a maddened root-owned daemon from bloating up and leaving you unable to log in again.


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