Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262993AbUC2RfW (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Mar 2004 12:35:22 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263015AbUC2RfV (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Mar 2004 12:35:21 -0500 Received: from palrel12.hp.com ([156.153.255.237]:47064 "EHLO palrel12.hp.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262993AbUC2RfP (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Mar 2004 12:35:15 -0500 From: David Mosberger MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16488.24144.210530.414379@napali.hpl.hp.com> Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 09:35:12 -0800 To: Andi Kleen Cc: David Mosberger , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: replace MAX_MAP_COUNT with /proc/sys/vm/max_map_count In-Reply-To: References: <16485.5722.591616.846576@napali.hpl.hp.com.suse.lists.linux.kernel> X-Mailer: VM 7.18 under Emacs 21.3.1 Reply-To: davidm@hpl.hp.com X-URL: http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/David_Mosberger/ Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 802 Lines: 20 >>>>> On 27 Mar 2004 07:19:49 +0100, Andi Kleen said: Andi> David Mosberger writes: >> +int sysctl_max_map_count = DEFAULT_MAX_MAP_COUNT; Andi> I think it would be better to scale the default by available Andi> low mem size. I don't really care, but if you want this to be memory-dependent, there would be several other parameters that could/should be memory dependent as well (e.g., max. number of processes). In other words, you'd be opening a can of worms. Not sure that makes sense fo 2.6. --david - 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/