Re: [PATCH] overcommit symbolic constants

From: Alan Cox (alan_at_lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: 09/30/04

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    To: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl
Date:	Thu, 30 Sep 2004 13:53:12 +0100

    On Iau, 2004-09-30 at 14:41, Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote:
    > Played a bit with overcommit the past hour.
    > Am not entirely satisfied with the no overcommit mode 2 -
    > programs segfault when the system is close to that boundary.

    Not really a suprise. Very few programs handle stack growth faults.
    Hence the docs comment about mmapping stacks privately for critical
    code.

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