> Why aren't people just setting the sysctl to a petabyte? What problems > would that lead to?
Historically - hanging on real world desktop systems when someone accidentally creates a giant SHM segment and maps it. If you are running with vm overcmmit set to actually do checks then it *shouldn't* blow up nowdays. More to the point wtf are people still using prehistoric sys5 IPC APIs not shmemfs/posix shmem ? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
