From: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com>
To: Helge Hafting <helgehaf@aitel.hist.no>
Cc: Rahul Karnik <rahul@genebrew.com>,
rusty@linux.co.intel.com, riel@conectiva.com.br,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Enabling other oom schemes
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 10:07:30 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F61D322.7020507@nortelnetworks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20030912111808.GA13973@hh.idb.hist.no
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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From: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com>
To: Helge Hafting <helgehaf@aitel.hist.no>
Cc: Rahul Karnik <rahul@genebrew.com>,
rusty@linux.co.intel.com, riel@conectiva.com.br,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Enabling other oom schemes
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 10:07:30 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F61D322.7020507@nortelnetworks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20030912111808.GA13973@hh.idb.hist.no
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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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-12 14:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-12 2:19 [RFC] Enabling other oom schemes Rusty Lynch
2003-09-12 2:19 ` Rusty Lynch
2003-09-12 4:18 ` Rahul Karnik
2003-09-12 4:18 ` Rahul Karnik
2003-09-12 4:31 ` Chris Friesen
2003-09-12 4:31 ` Chris Friesen
2003-09-12 4:40 ` Rahul Karnik
2003-09-12 4:40 ` Rahul Karnik
2003-09-12 4:48 ` Robert Love
2003-09-12 4:48 ` Robert Love
2003-09-12 11:18 ` Helge Hafting
2003-09-12 11:18 ` Helge Hafting
2003-09-12 14:07 ` Chris Friesen [this message]
2003-09-12 14:07 ` Chris Friesen
2003-09-12 14:30 ` M. Edward Borasky
2003-09-12 4:47 ` Robert Love
2003-09-12 4:47 ` Robert Love
2003-09-12 4:50 ` Robert Love
2003-09-12 10:42 ` Alan Cox
2003-09-12 8:58 ` Tvrtko A. Uršulin
2003-09-13 2:21 ` Rusty Lynch
2003-09-15 10:59 ` Tvrtko A. Uršulin
2003-09-13 17:48 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-13 17:48 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-13 20:52 ` Robert Love
2003-09-13 20:52 ` Robert Love
2003-09-13 22:04 ` Helge Hafting
2003-09-14 0:55 ` Robert Love
2003-09-14 9:12 ` Helge Hafting
2003-09-14 5:28 ` Chris Friesen
2003-09-14 5:28 ` Chris Friesen
2003-09-15 0:11 ` Mike S
2003-09-15 0:11 ` Mike S
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