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Subject: Re: [PATCH] VM strict overcommit
From: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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On Sat, 2002-07-20 at 17:59, Alan Cox wrote:

> When did you send me mail - I certainly never saw it. 

I can forward you the email if you like.  Same goes for your reply :)

> If its actually a serious concern, eg for some of the weirder embedded
> stuff you guys run at Montavista then I'd suggest changing it to have 
> three modes
> 
> 0 and 1 as before
> 
> 2 - some percentage of memory (default 50), and expose the percentage
> setting by sysctl too.
> 
> That allows people to experiment, handles weird cases and deals with the
> problem.

This is the way to go -- we should do this.  Good idea.

	Robert Love

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