Barry K. Nathan wrote:
> On 12/30/05, Al Boldi <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Thanks a lot!
> >
> > > +3 - (NEW) paranoid overcommit The total address space commit
> > > + for the system is not permitted to exceed swap. The machine
> > > + will never kill a process accessing pages it has mapped
> > > + except due to a bug (ie report it!)
> >
> > This one isn't in 2.6, which is critical for a stable system.
>
> I think you can get paranoid overcommit with either my patch or 2.6 by
> setting /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_mode to 2 *and*
> /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_ratio to 0, however.
Not really in 2.6.
And even if this were made to work, what would it imply to a system running
w/o swap?
Thanks!
--
Al
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