From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bill Nottingham Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 16:36:22 +0000 Subject: [Linux-ia64] Re: VM strict overcommit on RedHat AS 2.1 kernel 2.4.18-e12 ? Message-Id: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org Carron, Thierry (thierry.carron@hp.com) said: > I know that Alan Cox has a patch and that a lot of job is currently done in kernel 2.5 . > This patch is partially integrated in the kernel 2.4.18-e12 delivered with the RedHat Advanced Server 2.1. > But there is a difference between the documentation about overcommit_memory in sysctl/vm.txt and the code really implemented in mm/mmap.c > Is there any reason for that ? What differences are you seeing between the documentation and the code? Bill