> This change allows Linux to treat shm just as regular anonymous memory. > One important difference between them, though, is handling out-of-memory > conditions: as opposed to regular anon memory, the OOM killer will not > kill processes that are hogging memory through shm, allowing users to > potentially abuse this. To overcome this situation, the shm_rmid_forced > option must be enabled. Off topic: systemd implemented similar feature RemoveIPC and it is enabled by default. http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-March/018232.html -- 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>