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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 13:09:57 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1152446997.27368.52.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BKEKJNIHLJDCFGDBOHGMAEFDDCAA.abum@aftek.com>

Ar Sul, 2006-07-09 am 17:18 +0530, ysgrifennodd Abu M. Muttalib:
> but I am running the application on an embedded device and have no swap..
> what do I need to do in this case??

Use less memory ?

You can play with /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_ratio. That is set at 50%
which is usually a good safe value with swap. If you know the kernel and
kernel memory will be 20% of memory worst case you can set it to 80 and
so on.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-07-09 12:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <fa.AmXizdwfdZtqgKFSMcRp3U0QZXI@ifi.uio.no>
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
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 [this message]
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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