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____/ Peter KÃhlmann on Tuesday 24 Nov 2009 12:19 : \____
> Lusotec wrote:
>
>> Erik Funkenbusch wrote:
>>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>>>| things can grind to a painful halt, with the
>>>>| only possible solution (other than rebooting
>>>>| the system) being to kill off processes
>>>>| until a sufficient amount of memory is freed
>>>>| up.
>>>
>>> That is not the only possible solution. Many OS's do not use that
>>> solution, instead, they deny new memory allocations to applications.
>>> This usually ends up with poorly written applications crashing and
>>> freeing up memory anyways, rather than randomply picking processes to
>>> kill.
>>>
>>> Want to make sure your app doesn't die if the OS runs out of memory?
>>> then
>>> make sure it handles out of memory correctly. Want to make sure your
>>> app
>>> doesn't get killed under Linux? Sorry, can't be done.
>>
>> Yes it can be done.
>> See http://www.linuxinsight.com/proc_sys_vm_overcommit_memory.html
>>
>
> Just don't expect Erik Funkenbusch to know *anything* at all about linux.
> He is just like the other liars in cola: He *claims* to run a linux
> system. And proves with every post about linux that he does not
>
> He is very much like Hadron Snot Quark or Snot Michael Glasser. Or
> DumbFullShit. Or Scott Ezekiel Nudds. Just lies, no substance
It's the same lot. They E-mail each others.
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