Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: Overcommit_memory logic fails when swap is off | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | 21 Aug 2002 19:53:46 +0100 |
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On Wed, 2002-08-21 at 19:04, Robert Love wrote: > Alan, hch or someone asked if it would be possible to merge the 2.5 > behavior into 2.4-ac ... are you interested or do you not want to break > compatibility? > > Note for "mode 2" the behavior is identical. For "mode 3" they would > also need to set vm_memory_ratio to "0".
Obvious thing to do would be to add the 2.5 feature once its in a Linus released 2.5 and clearly stable, and make mode 2 mode 3 overwrite that value when you set them the old way.
I'm happy for that
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