The existence of OOM is one of the few really stupid things in Linux

Posted Nov 23, 2009 15:19 UTC (Mon) by jch (guest, #51929)
In reply to: The existence of OOM is one of the few really stupid things in Linux by mikov
Parent article: Toward a smarter OOM killer

> How does Solaris deal with mapping shared libraries without overcommitting?

Shared libraries are backed by filesystem data, so a read-only map of a shared library does not involve overcommit.