Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] strict VM overcommit for stock 2.4 | From | Robert Love <> | Date | 18 Jul 2002 12:03:16 -0700 |
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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
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