2002-10-29 03:12:57

by Kenny Simpson

Subject: overcommit-accounting

In linux/Documentation/vm/overcommit-accounting I see
the following:
"The Linux kernel supports four overcommit handling
modes

0 - Heuristic ...
1 - No overcommit ...
2 - (NEW) strict overcommit...
"

Where is number 3 ?

-Kenny




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2002-10-29 09:08:20

by Alan

Subject: Re: overcommit-accounting

On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 03:19, Kenny Simpson wrote:
> In linux/Documentation/vm/overcommit-accounting I see
> the following:
> "The Linux kernel supports four overcommit handling
> modes
>
> 0 - Heuristic ...
> 1 - No overcommit ...
> 2 - (NEW) strict overcommit...
> "
>
> Where is number 3 ?

Robert removed number 3 from 2.5 and I guess he missed one of the
comments 8)

2002-10-29 16:59:25

by Robert Love

Subject: [patch] overcommit-accounting doc fix

On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 04:33, Alan Cox wrote:

> On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 03:19, Kenny Simpson wrote:
>
> > Where is number 3 ?
>
> Robert removed number 3 from 2.5 and I guess he missed one of the
> comments 8)

Whoops - documentation fix attached :)

Robert Love

Documentation/overcommit-accounting | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff -urN linux-2.5.44/Documentation/vm/overcommit-accounting linux/Documentation/vm/overcommit-accounting
--- linux-2.5.44/Documentation/vm/overcommit-accounting 2002-10-19 00:01:18.000000000 -0400
+++ linux/Documentation/vm/overcommit-accounting 2002-10-29 12:03:13.000000000 -0500
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-The Linux kernel supports four overcommit handling modes
+The Linux kernel supports three overcommit handling modes

0 - Heuristic overcommit handling. Obvious overcommits of
address space are refused. Used for a typical system. It