From: V13 <v13@priest.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: PATCH: Root reservations for strict overcommit
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 22:49:35 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200408312249.36218.v13@priest.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1093970232.611.16.camel@localhost.localdomain>
On Tuesday 31 August 2004 19:37, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Maw, 2004-08-31 at 18:13, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> > Would it be a problem to put a lower bound on how much to leave for
> > root? If it's really too small to be useful, perhaps one of (a) reserve
> > enough to be useful or (b) don't bother to reserve at all, should be
>
> Possibly. I'm currently following what someone appears to have decided
> is correct behaviour. It probably should be tunable
I believe it makes more sense to describe it as KB instead of %. Noone should
have to reserve 120MB for root on a 4G box. Even if it is tunable, memory
size seems better than percent since you'll not have to change it when you
add/remove memory from your box.
<<V13>>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-31 19:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-31 14:34 PATCH: Root reservations for strict overcommit Alan Cox
2004-08-31 17:13 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-08-31 16:37 ` Alan Cox
2004-08-31 19:49 ` V13 [this message]
2004-09-02 9:36 ` Paul Jackson
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