From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 18:08:20 +0100 From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" Subject: Re: the new VMt Message-ID: <20000926180820.E1343@redhat.com> References: <20000925200454.A14728@pcep-jamie.cern.ch> <20000925121315.A15966@hq.fsmlabs.com> <20000925192453.R2615@redhat.com> <20000925123456.A16612@hq.fsmlabs.com> <20000925202549.V2615@redhat.com> <20000925140419.A18243@hq.fsmlabs.com> <20000925171411.A2397@codepoet.org> <20000926091744.A25214@hq.fsmlabs.com> <20000926170406.C1343@redhat.com> <20000926110247.A4698@codepoet.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20000926110247.A4698@codepoet.org>; from andersen@codepoet.org on Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 11:02:48AM -0600 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: "Stephen C. Tweedie" , yodaiken@fsmlabs.com, MM mailing list , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi, On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 11:02:48AM -0600, Erik Andersen wrote: > Another approach would be to let user space turn off overcommit. No. Overcommit only applies to pageable memory. Beancounter is really needed for non-pageable resources such as page tables and mlock()ed pages. Cheers, Stephen -- 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.eu.org/Linux-MM/