From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: RE: Commenting out out_of_memory() function in __alloc_pages() From: Alan Cox In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2006 13:09:57 +0100 Message-Id: <1152446997.27368.52.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: "Abu M. Muttalib" Cc: Robert Hancock , chase.venters@clientec.com, kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org, linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm List-ID: 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. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org