kernel killing processes when out of swap

[Nick Barnes]

At 2005-04-12 18:17:32+0000, Matthias Buelow writes:

> This stuff has been discussed in the past.

Indeed. For a couple of examples from the days before BSD systems got
overcommit, see these threads from 1990 and 1991:

<http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.unix.aix/browse_frm/thread/91541dbf6b658465/4c590978f1001507?q=overcommit&rnum=14#4c590978f1001507>

<http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.unix.aix/browse_frm/thread/38c9bb9996d30eb1/e8c30f78c44a3f62?q=overcommit&rnum=12#e8c30f78c44a3f62>

Nick B