On 10/05/2016 13:56, Sebastian Frias wrote: > Currently the initial value of the overcommit mode is OVERCOMMIT_GUESS. > However, on embedded systems it is usually better to disable overcommit > to avoid waking up the OOM-killer and its well known undesirable > side-effects. There is an interesting article on LWN: Toward more predictable and reliable out-of-memory handling https://lwn.net/Articles/668126/ Regards. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>