Re: [PATCH] strict VM overcommit for stock 2.4

[Szakacsits Szabolcs]

On 18 Jul 2002, Robert Love wrote:

> I do not see anything in this email related to the issue at hand.

You solve a problem and introduce a potentially more serious one.
Strict overcommit is requisite but not satisfactory.

> Specifically, what livelock situation are you insinuating?  If we only
> allow allocation that are met by the backing store, we cannot get
> anywhere near OOM.

This is what I would do first [make sure you don't hit any resource,
malloc, kernel memory mapping, etc limits -- this is a simulation that
must eat all available memory continually]:
main(){void *x;while(1)if(x=malloc(4096))memset(x,666,4096);}

When the above used up all the memory try to ssh/login to the box as
root and clean up the mess. Can you do it?

	Szaka