From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>,
akpm@zip.com.au, riel@conectiva.com.br,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.5-rmap: VM strict overcommit
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 00:20:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020729222052.GA15219@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1027694803.13428.43.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk>
Hi!
> > In what scenario can "strict overcommit" kill?
>
> When the kernel grabs over 50% of RAM. Remember that includes page
> tables. I've seen the kernel taking 35% of RAM.
But it could happen that kernel would attempt to allocate 101% of RAM
for page tables, right? At that even "paranoid overcommit" might be
OOM, right?
Pavel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-07-30 17:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-07-17 17:59 [PATCH] 2.5-rmap: VM strict overcommit Robert Love
2002-07-26 10:31 ` Pavel Machek
2002-07-26 14:46 ` Alan Cox
2002-07-29 22:20 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2002-07-30 17:49 ` Rik van Riel
2002-07-30 17:55 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-07-30 20:09 ` Alan Cox
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