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Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 22:09:23 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Szabolcs Szakacsits <szaka@f-secure.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Alan Cox wrote:

> I'd like to have it there as an option. As to the default - You
> would have to see how much applications assume they can overcommit
> and rely on it. You might find you need a few Gbytes of swap just to
> boot

Seems a bit exaggeration ;) Here are numbers,

	http://lists.openresources.com/NetBSD/tech-userlevel/msg00722.html

6-50% more VM and the performance hit also isn't so bad as it's thought
(Eduardo Horvath sent a non-overcommit patch for Linux about one year
ago).

	Szaka

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