Disabling memory overcommit prevents some applications to start while there is a lot of free memory (1-2GB). Seen with KDE apps: kwin, plasma-desktop, kate, kopete, rekonq, crash reporter. So KDE desktop is unusable with this setting. Overcommit values 0 or 1 fix that completely. It might be divided into two parts: - don't try to alloc a lot of memory - don't segfault if memory is really exhausted and throw more proper kind of error Affected Qt version: qt-4.8.3-7.fc17.x86_64 Works fine (mostly?): qt-4.8.2-7.fc17.x86_64 More info and backtraces: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=853587#c15 (this comment and below) https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=309889
To be honest, I'd be inclined to filing this under "don't do that then".
Sorry, my English isn't very well :) Do you mean not to play with overcommit setting and leave it as default? It isn't vital maybe, but relying on overcommit permission isn't a best case anyway, as for me. Especially as for basic and important component like Qt.
This might be fixed in latest qt/qtwebkit builds. (If not, we'll likely just have to mark this CANTFIX)
(In reply to Rex Dieter from comment #3) Could you please specify the exact version of this components to test? Are they already present in repo? I use F19 beta x86_64 for now.
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Still valid in F19
marking cantfix, webkit jit (still) really needs this, no way around it afaik.