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Michael Kerrisk 2007-06-13 22:16:32 +00:00
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@ -183,10 +183,14 @@ one or more processes will be killed by the infamous OOM killer.
In case Linux is employed under circumstances where it would be
less desirable to suddenly lose some randomly picked processes,
and moreover the kernel version is sufficiently recent,
one can switch off this overcommitting behavior using a command like
.RS
one can switch off this overcommitting behavior using a command like:
.in +0.5i
.nf
# echo 2 > /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory
.RE
.fi
.in
See also the kernel Documentation directory, files
.I vm/overcommit-accounting
and