Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: 2.4 kernel series and the oom_killer and /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | 22 Aug 2002 18:32:53 +0100 |
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On Thu, 2002-08-22 at 16:19, Marc-Christian Petersen wrote: > If I understand it correct, /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory controls if there > is "1" always enough memory and if "0" every program call checks if there is > enough memory.
No
0 is a heuristic overcommit 1 is "anything goes"
and with a -ac kernel
2 is a proper overcommit manager 3 is a totally paranoid one that will require everything in ram can be dumped to swap or paged back from backing store
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