[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I don't see the relevance to linux-raid either, but the 2.2.x kernel does
> have /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory which will enable the below behaviour.
> It's off by default though...
thanks, I will try this /proc setting,
I am using a standard RH5.2 box with a 2.2.6 kernel + 0145 raid patches
but strange when the /proc/.. setting is off by default, why it's on on my
machine
I don't think RH5.2 will specifically turn on the switch, because the
init-scripts are for kernel 2.0.36.
the relevance to linux-raid is the following:
I was testing the stability of swapping over soft-RAID1,
and got a a "side-effect" the malloc problem ...
:-)
earlier raid patches creashed the machine because
the free_page problems ( memory starvation)
the never patches gave me the same results while swapping on soft-RAID1 as
swapping on a regular swaparea.
regards,
Benno.
