From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: "Abu M. Muttalib" <abum@aftek.com>
Cc: Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>,
chase.venters@clientec.com, kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org,
linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: RE: Commenting out out_of_memory() function in __alloc_pages()
Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2006 12:55:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1152446107.27368.45.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BKEKJNIHLJDCFGDBOHGMCEEGDCAA.abum@aftek.com>
Ar Sul, 2006-07-09 am 09:53 +0530, ysgrifennodd Abu M. Muttalib:
> Hi,
>
> I tried with the /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory=2 and the system refused to
> load the program altogether.
>
> In this scenario is making overcommit_memory=2 a good idea?
It will refuse to load the program if that would use enough memory that
the system cannot be sure it will not run out of memory having done so.
You probably need a lot more swap.
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Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2006-07-08 18:06 ` Robert Hancock
2006-07-09 4:23 ` Abu M. Muttalib
2006-07-09 5:18 ` Chase Venters
2006-07-09 6:11 ` Abu M. Muttalib
2006-07-09 7:55 ` Chase Venters
2006-07-09 11:55 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2006-07-09 11:48 ` Abu M. Muttalib
2006-07-09 12:01 ` Willy Tarreau
2006-07-09 12:13 ` Abu M. Muttalib
2006-07-09 12:15 ` Willy Tarreau
2006-07-09 13:12 ` Abu M. Muttalib
2006-07-09 13:23 ` Willy Tarreau
2006-07-09 12:09 ` Alan Cox
2006-07-09 12:03 ` Abu M. Muttalib
2006-07-09 12:03 ` Nick Piggin
2006-07-09 14:34 ` Abu M. Muttalib
2006-07-09 15:15 ` Nick Piggin
2006-07-07 9:46 Abu M. Muttalib
2006-07-07 9:54 ` Robin Holt
2006-07-11 14:57 ` Abu M. Muttalib
2006-07-11 15:08 ` Abu M. Muttalib
2006-07-11 15:19 ` Abu M. Muttalib
2006-07-13 5:12 ` Mouhammad Tayseer Alquoatli
2006-07-11 15:35 ` Chase Venters
2006-07-24 9:44 ` Abu M. Muttalib
2006-07-07 21:21 ` Chase Venters
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