Expedited memory reclaim from killed processes

Posted Apr 18, 2019 7:26 UTC (Thu) by farnz (subscriber, #17727)
In reply to: Expedited memory reclaim from killed processes by thestinger
Parent article: Expedited memory reclaim from killed processes

Ah - on other systems (Solaris, at least, and IRIX had the same functionality under a different name), which do not normally permit any overcommit, it allows you to specifically flag a memory range as "can overcommit". If application-controlled overcommit ever becomes a requirement on Linux, supporting the Solaris (and documented) semantics would be a necessary part.