Re: [PATCH] strict VM overcommit for stock 2.4
From: Robert Love <hidden>
Date: 2002-07-18 19:00:41
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On Thu, 2002-07-18 at 11:56, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
What should have happened is each of the tasks need only about 4k until they actually access something. Since they can't possibly access everything at once, we need to fault in pages as needed, not all at once. This is what 'overcomit' is, and it is necessary.
Then do not enable strict overcommit, Dick.
If you have 'fixed' something so that no RAM ever has to be paged you have a badly broken system.
That is not the intention of Alan or I's work at all. Robert Love -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/