Re: [PATCH] Prevent OOM from killing init

[Alan Cox]

> > Even if malloc fails the situation is no different.
> Why do you say so?

Because you will fail on other things - stack overflow, signal delivery,
eventually it will get you. You just cut the odds down. 

> > You can do overcommit avoidance in Linux if you are bored enough to try it.
> 
> Would you accept it as the default? Would Linus?

I'd like to have it there as an option. As to the default - You would have to
see how much applications assume they can overcommit and rely on it. You might
find you need a few Gbytes of swap just to boot

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