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

[Kostik Belousov]

On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 02:42:06AM +0100, Thomas Hurst wrote:
> * 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/
Latest version is at
http://people.freebsd.org/~kib/overcommit/vm_overcommit.22.patch
applicable to the today CURRENT.
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