Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 18 Mar 2002 22:23:05 +0100 | From | toon@vdpas ... | Subject | Re: Linux 2.4.19-pre3-ac1 |
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On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 11:44:27AM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > > - 2.4.19-pre-ac: kswapd try to swap out and access disk continuously. Whole > > system is slow down and un-interactivable. > > echo "2" >/proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory
Why are you using the value "2"? It makes me think that it activates some special magic, but all I can find in mmap.c is:
/* Sometimes we want to use more memory than we have. */ if (sysctl_overcommit_memory) return 1;
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