Eric Enright wrote: > Linux overcommits / lazy loads on memory allocations, though this is > tunable. I believe the default setting is to overcommit, which can > lead to the random killing of processes in order to retrieve memory > should one run out. I forget the terminology used for that particular > system.
They have something called the 'out of memory killer'. In the past it just looked for Netscape/Mozilla ;-) I believe its behaviour is tunable, at one point they actually allowed the determination of processes to be killed to be modifiable. There also was some effort to remove this behaviour in the 2.4 kernel. peter _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
