Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264093AbTKZJSN (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Nov 2003 04:18:13 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264095AbTKZJSN (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Nov 2003 04:18:13 -0500 Received: from natsmtp01.rzone.de ([81.169.145.166]:38112 "EHLO natsmtp01.rzone.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264093AbTKZJSM (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Nov 2003 04:18:12 -0500 Message-ID: <3FC46FD0.8020504@softhome.net> Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 10:18:08 +0100 From: "Ihar 'Philips' Filipau" Organization: Home Sweet Home User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20030927 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Pascal Schmidt CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.23-rc5 References: In-Reply-To: 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: 1099 Lines: 28 Pascal Schmidt wrote: > On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 17:50:20 +0100, you wrote in linux.kernel: > >> "overcommit_memory < 0" supposed to not allow apps to overallocate >>memory - but still it works not like it is said in >>Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt. > > > That file mentiones setting overcommit_memory to 0 to disable overcommit. > Have you tried that? > Yes. This is kernel default on all my systems. -- Ihar 'Philips' Filipau / with best regards from Saarbruecken. -- _ _ _ Because the kernel depends on it existing. "init" |_|*|_| literally _is_ special from a kernel standpoint, |_|_|*| because its' the "reaper of zombies" (and, may I add, |*|*|*| that would be a great name for a rock band). -- Linus Torvalds - 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/