* Andrew Haley: >> The latter leads to problems if the maximum heap size is relatively large. >> Currently, -Xmx is reserved, and some software fails to build on >> vm.overcommit_memory systems due to this. > > I don't get it. Why would overcommit cause some software to fail to > build? I can understand it failing if overcommit was turned off.
Sorry, I meant to write "vm.overcommit_memory=2". -- Florian Weimer <fwei...@bfk.de> BFK edv-consulting GmbH http://www.bfk.de/ Kriegsstraße 100 tel: +49-721-96201-1 D-76133 Karlsruhe fax: +49-721-96201-99