Re: Linux2.6 overcommit behaviour

I take that last remark back - it is there whether or not 
CONFIG_SECURITY is defined or not. The code is in 2 places - ugh.

andrew


Andrew Dunstan wrote:

>
> 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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