Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 12 Sep 2003 10:07:30 -0400 | From | Chris Friesen <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] Enabling other oom schemes |
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Helge Hafting wrote: > On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 12:31:27AM -0400, Chris Friesen wrote:
> Note that this "memory" is RAM+swap. So you can avoid allocation > failure by giving your strict overcommit box much more swap space.
This works great for the desktop, doesn't work so well when you don't have any swap--as is the case for most embedded apps that would like stricter overcommit.
Chris
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