From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alan Cox Subject: RE: Commenting out out_of_memory() function in __alloc_pages() Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2006 13:09:57 +0100 Message-ID: <1152446997.27368.52.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: "Abu M. Muttalib" Cc: Robert Hancock , chase.venters@clientec.com, kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org, linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm Ar Sul, 2006-07-09 am 17:18 +0530, ysgrifennodd Abu M. Muttalib: > but I am running the application on an embedded device and have no swap.. > what do I need to do in this case?? Use less memory ? You can play with /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_ratio. That is set at 50% which is usually a good safe value with swap. If you know the kernel and kernel memory will be 20% of memory worst case you can set it to 80 and so on. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs