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From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, 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 10:55:14 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020730175514.GC25038@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020729222052.GA15219@elf.ucw.cz>

At some point in the past, someone said:
>> When the kernel grabs over 50% of RAM. Remember that includes page
>> tables. I've seen the kernel taking 35% of RAM.

On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 12:20:52AM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> 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?

There is already accounting for this, so it is no longer necessary to
let them fly below the kernel's radar.


Cheers,
Bill

  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-07-30 17:52 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
2002-07-30 17:49       ` Rik van Riel
2002-07-30 17:55       ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2002-07-30 20:09       ` Alan Cox

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