On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 11:04:34AM -0500, Havoc Pennington wrote: > > You can set rlimits; you can also turn off overcommit. Doesn't help > > the yum/rpm case, of course. > > Can we do either of those things by default/automatically in appropriate > cases? > We should be shipping with overcommit off by default, but I've been saying that for years too 8. You can just drop it into /etc/sysctl.conf
