Re: [2.4.18] Security: Process-Killer if machine get's out of memory

[Alan Cox]

> Advantage of combining consumption-speed and memory usage per process 
> would be, that processes could be filtered, which are obviously broken. 
> If the behaviour of the process is correct, than the machine hasn't 
> enough memory. But this is a problem, which cannot be handled by the kernel.

With 2.4.19pre3-ac3+ you don't need a heuristic. Do

	echo "2" >/proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory

The system will then fail allocations before they can cause an OOM status.
It might be interesting to add "except root" modes to this.

Alan