Shridhar Daithankar wrote: > Hi all, > > Following is from Documentation/vm/overcommit-accounting > ------------- > 2 - (NEW) strict overcommit. The total address space commit > for the system is not permitted to exceed swap + a > configurable percentage (default is 50) of physical RAM. > Depending on the percentage you use, in most situations > this means a process will not be killed while accessing > pages but will receive errors on memory allocation as > appropriate.
It is strange to choose 50% of RAM plus swap (what if your spam is small). I thought it would be 100% of RAM plus the swap that exceeds RAM size. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])
