Re: [PATCH ] VMSPLIT config options (with default config fixed)

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On Sun, 2006-02-05 at 22:14 +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> >> >
> >> > Mmm.. bad idea.  As much as I'd like the default to be 3GB_OPT, that would
> >> > be a big impact to userspace, and there's no point in breaking everyone's
> >> > machines when advanced users can just reconfig/recompile to get what they want.
> >> >
> >> What userspace programs do depend on it?
> >
> >there is a lot of userspace that assumes they can do 2Gb or even close
> >to 3Gb of memory allocations. Databases, java, basically anything with
> >threads. Sure for most of these its a configuration option to reduce
> >this, but that still doesn't mean it's a good idea to change from the
> >existing behavior...
> > 
> Not to mention that these (almost(*)) fail anyway when you have less than 2 
> GB of RAM.

it's not really overcommit... it can also be file mmaps or shared mmaps
of say tmpfs files (the later is common with oracle actually)



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