OOM stands for "Out Of Memory" and it does indeed seem to be the same as
what IRIX had. I believe you can turn the feature off and also configure
its overcomitment by setting something in /proc/..... and unfortunately, I
don't remember more than that.
On Thu, 16 Nov 2006, Craig A. James wrote:
> OOM? Can you give me a quick pointer to what this acronym stands for and how
> I can reconfigure it? It sounds like a "feature" old UNIX systems like SGI
> IRIX had, where the system would allocate virtual memory that it didn't
> really have, then kill your process if you tried to use it. I.e. malloc()
> would never return NULL even if swap space was over allocated. Is this what
> you're talking about? Having this enabled on a server is deadly for
> reliability.
>
> Thanks,
> Craig
>
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