When Linux Runs Out of Memory - O'Reilly Media →
Good article explaining Linux’s default overcommit-ing behavior (/proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory) and the OOM killer.
Welcome, my name is Harish Mallipeddi. I work for Amazon Web Services (AWS). This blog is mostly a dump of interesting articles that I come across on the web. Topics span across multiple areas including algorithms/datastructures, NoSQL stores, database internals, web-scale challenges, and functional languages.
Good article explaining Linux’s default overcommit-ing behavior (/proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory) and the OOM killer.
