Re: [PATCHES] improve overcommit docs

2003-11-16 Thread Andrew Dunstan
That covers it extremely well. cheers andrew Tom Lane wrote: Andrew Dunstan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: At the time I wrote the original 2.6 was not out even in prerelease, which is why I was deliberately somewhat vague about it. It is still in prerelease, and it will in fact work slightly

Re: [PATCHES] improve overcommit docs

2003-11-16 Thread Tom Lane
Andrew Dunstan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At the time I wrote the original 2.6 was not out even in prerelease, > which is why I was deliberately somewhat vague about it. It is still in > prerelease, and it will in fact work slightly differently from what was > in some 2.4 kernels - there are

Re: [PATCHES] improve overcommit docs

2003-11-16 Thread Andrew Dunstan
At the time I wrote the original 2.6 was not out even in prerelease, which is why I was deliberately somewhat vague about it. It is still in prerelease, and it will in fact work slightly differently from what was in some 2.4 kernels - there are 2 settings that govern this instead of 1. Here is

Re: [PATCHES] improve overcommit docs

2003-11-15 Thread Tom Lane
Neil Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This patch makes some improvements to the section of the documentation > that describes the Linux 2.4 memory overcommit behavior. Applied. I tweaked some of the wording a bit further. > I removed the almost content-free assertion that "You will need enou

[PATCHES] improve overcommit docs

2003-11-15 Thread Neil Conway
This patch makes some improvements to the section of the documentation that describes the Linux 2.4 memory overcommit behavior. I removed the almost content-free assertion that "You will need enough swap space to cover your memory needs." If this is intended to communicate anything meaningful, can