Why kernel kills processes that run out of memory instead of just failing memory allocation system calls?

[Thomas Hurst]

* Nate Eldredge (neldredge at math.ucsd.edu) wrote:

> There may be a way to enable the conservative behavior; I know Linux
> has an option to do this, but am not sure about FreeBSD.

I seem to remember a patch to disable overcommit.  Here we go:

  http://people.freebsd.org/~kib/overcommit/

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Thomas 'Freaky' Hurst
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