Messages in this thread | | | From | V13 <> | Subject | Re: PATCH: Root reservations for strict overcommit | Date | Tue, 31 Aug 2004 22:49:35 +0300 |
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On Tuesday 31 August 2004 19:37, Alan Cox wrote: > On Maw, 2004-08-31 at 18:13, Bill Davidsen wrote: > > Would it be a problem to put a lower bound on how much to leave for > > root? If it's really too small to be useful, perhaps one of (a) reserve > > enough to be useful or (b) don't bother to reserve at all, should be > > Possibly. I'm currently following what someone appears to have decided > is correct behaviour. It probably should be tunable
I believe it makes more sense to describe it as KB instead of %. Noone should have to reserve 120MB for root on a 4G box. Even if it is tunable, memory size seems better than percent since you'll not have to change it when you add/remove memory from your box.
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