Re: Linux2.6 overcommit behaviour

Yes, in 2.6, which is not yet released. Even after it is released I 
expect it to take some time to bed down and make its way into vendor 
releases, if the history of 2.4 is anything to go by.

Incidentally, it looks to me like it is only in 2.6 if your kernel is 
built with CONFIG_SECURITY, which I expect most will be.

andrew

Shridhar Daithankar wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>Following is from Documentation/vm/overcommit-accounting
>-------------
>2    -    (NEW) strict overcommit. The total address space commit
>        for the system is not permitted to exceed swap + a
>        configurable percentage (default is 50) of physical RAM.
>        Depending on the percentage you use, in most situations
>        this means a process will not be killed while accessing
>        pages but will receive errors on memory allocation as
>        appropriate.
>-------------
>
>Looks like it's been taken care once for all.
>
> Shridhar
>
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