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Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2002 00:46:11 -0300 (BRT)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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To: Daniel Phillips <phillips@arcor.de>
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Subject: Re: 2.4 kernel series and the oom_killer and /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory
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On Sat, 24 Aug 2002, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> On Thursday 22 August 2002 19:32, Alan Cox wrote:
> > 3 is a totally paranoid [overcommit policy] that will require everything in
> > ram can be dumped to swap or paged back from backing store
>
> How do you handle the situation where you have a lot of shared memory in a
> half-paged-out state, so that each shared page consumes both ram and swap?

That will work fine with 'totally paranoid' mode.  There is always
enough swap space to hold _all_ pages, so everything will just
continue to work.

regards,

Rik
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