Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 26 Sep 2000 17:13:46 -0400 (EDT) | From | Eric Lowe <> | Subject | Re: the new VMt |
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Hello,
> > Another approach would be to let user space turn off overcommit. > > No. Overcommit only applies to pageable memory. Beancounter is > really needed for non-pageable resources such as page tables and > mlock()ed pages. >
In addition to beancounter, do you think pageable page tables are something we want to tackle in 2.5.x? 4MB page mappings on x86 could be cool too, as an option...
-- Eric Lowe FibreChannel Software Engineer, Systran Corporation elowe@systran.com
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