Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261707AbTILOHy (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Sep 2003 10:07:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261709AbTILOHy (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Sep 2003 10:07:54 -0400 Received: from zcars0m9.nortelnetworks.com ([47.129.242.157]:26007 "EHLO zcars0m9.nortelnetworks.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261707AbTILOHx (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Sep 2003 10:07:53 -0400 Message-ID: <3F61D322.7020507@nortelnetworks.com> Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 10:07:30 -0400 X-Sybari-Space: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 From: Chris Friesen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.8) Gecko/20020204 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Helge Hafting Cc: Rahul Karnik , rusty@linux.co.intel.com, riel@conectiva.com.br, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC] Enabling other oom schemes References: <200309120219.h8C2JANc004514@penguin.co.intel.com> <3F614912.3090801@genebrew.com> <3F614C1F.6010802@nortelnetworks.com> <20030912111808.GA13973@hh.idb.hist.no> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 884 Lines: 25 Helge Hafting wrote: > On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 12:31:27AM -0400, Chris Friesen wrote: > Note that this "memory" is RAM+swap. So you can avoid allocation > failure by giving your strict overcommit box much more swap space. This works great for the desktop, doesn't work so well when you don't have any swap--as is the case for most embedded apps that would like stricter overcommit. Chris -- Chris Friesen | MailStop: 043/33/F10 Nortel Networks | work: (613) 765-0557 3500 Carling Avenue | fax: (613) 765-2986 Nepean, ON K2H 8E9 Canada | email: cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/