From: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
To: root@chaos.analogic.com
Cc: Szakacsits Szabolcs <szaka@sienet.hu>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] strict VM overcommit for stock 2.4
Date: 18 Jul 2002 12:03:16 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1027018996.1116.136.camel@sinai> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.1020718144203.1123A-100000@chaos.analogic.com>
On Thu, 2002-07-18 at 11:56, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> What should have happened is each of the tasks need only about
> 4k until they actually access something. Since they can't possibly
> access everything at once, we need to fault in pages as needed,
> not all at once. This is what 'overcomit' is, and it is necessary.
Then do not enable strict overcommit, Dick.
> If you have 'fixed' something so that no RAM ever has to be paged
> you have a badly broken system.
That is not the intention of Alan or I's work at all.
Robert Love
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-07-18 19:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-07-11 22:28 [PATCH] strict VM overcommit Robert Love
2002-07-12 17:30 ` [PATCH] strict VM overcommit for stock 2.4 Robert Love
2002-07-18 15:22 ` Szakacsits Szabolcs
2002-07-18 16:31 ` Robert Love
2002-07-18 16:36 ` Szakacsits Szabolcs
2002-07-18 17:42 ` Robert Love
2002-07-18 17:25 ` Szakacsits Szabolcs
2002-07-18 17:31 ` Szakacsits Szabolcs
2002-07-18 18:32 ` Robert Love
2002-07-18 19:58 ` Alan Cox
2002-07-18 18:01 ` Szakacsits Szabolcs
2002-07-18 18:52 ` Robert Love
2002-07-18 20:52 ` Alan Cox
2002-07-19 6:17 ` Szakacsits Szabolcs
2002-07-18 22:22 ` Rik van Riel
2002-07-19 7:47 ` Szakacsits Szabolcs
2002-07-18 18:28 ` Robert Love
2002-07-18 17:50 ` Szakacsits Szabolcs
2002-07-18 19:25 ` stoffel
2002-07-19 5:52 ` Szakacsits Szabolcs
2002-07-18 18:56 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-07-18 19:03 ` Robert Love [this message]
2002-07-18 19:19 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-07-18 19:22 ` Robert Love
2002-07-18 20:49 ` Alan Cox
2002-07-19 16:49 ` Amit Shah
2002-07-19 17:16 ` Robert Love
2002-07-20 5:02 ` Amit Shah
2002-07-18 19:10 ` Robert Love
2002-07-18 19:35 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-07-18 19:41 ` Daniel Gryniewicz
2002-07-18 20:23 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-07-18 20:43 ` Daniel Gryniewicz
2002-07-19 7:30 ` Szakacsits Szabolcs
2002-07-19 18:06 ` Robert Love
2002-07-18 22:24 ` Rik van Riel
2002-07-18 22:30 ` Robert Love
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