From: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>, Ben LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>,
Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>,
Richard Jerrrell <jerrell@missioncriticallinux.com>,
Stephen Tweedie <sct@redhat.com>,
arjanv@redhat.com, alan@redhat.com, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] swap_state.c thinko
Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 14:16:59 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200104091816.f39IGxD16018@devserv.devel.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010406222256.C935@athlon.random> from "Andrea Arcangeli" at Apr 06, 2001 10:22:56 PM
> On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 12:52:26PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > vm_enough_memory() is a heuristic, nothing more. We want it to reflect
> > _some_ view of reality, but the Linux VM is _fundamentally_ based on the
> > notion of over-commit, and that won't change. vm_enough_memory() is only
> > meant to give a first-order appearance of not overcommitting wildly. It
> > has never been anything more than that.
>
> 200% agreed.
Given that strict address space management is not that hard would you
accept patches to allow optional non-overcommit in 2.5
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Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-04-05 15:56 [PATCH] swap_state.c thinko Ben LaHaise
2001-04-05 16:05 ` Rik van Riel
2001-04-05 17:11 ` Ben LaHaise
2001-04-05 23:40 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-04-06 0:32 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-04-06 16:31 ` Hugh Dickins
2001-04-06 17:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-04-06 18:23 ` Hugh Dickins
2001-04-06 18:57 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-04-06 19:06 ` Rik van Riel
2001-04-06 18:47 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-04-06 18:37 ` Hugh Dickins
2001-04-06 19:09 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-04-06 18:53 ` Hugh Dickins
2001-04-06 19:14 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-04-06 19:03 ` Hugh Dickins
2001-04-06 20:03 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-04-06 19:12 ` Richard Jerrell
2001-04-06 19:52 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-04-06 20:22 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-04-06 21:04 ` Rik van Riel
2001-04-07 1:27 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-04-09 18:16 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2001-04-09 18:45 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-04-09 20:32 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-04-09 20:54 ` David L. Parsley
2001-04-10 21:07 ` James Antill
2001-04-10 22:20 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-04-06 20:48 ` Hugh Dickins
2001-04-05 17:21 ` Hugh Dickins
2001-04-05 21:39 ` Richard Jerrell
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2001-04-06 20:20 Bulent Abali
2001-04-06 20:33 ` Jeff Garzik
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