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