From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2002 16:28:24 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III Subject: Re: overcommit stuff Message-ID: <20020921232824.GB25605@holomorphy.com> References: <3D8D0046.EF119E03@digeo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Description: brief message Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3D8D0046.EF119E03@digeo.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andrew Morton Cc: Alan Cox , "linux-mm@kvack.org" List-ID: On Sat, Sep 21, 2002 at 04:27:02PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > Alan, > running 10,000 tiobench threads I'm showing 23 gigs of > `Commited_AS'. Is this right? Those pages are shared, > and if they're not PROT_WRITEable then there's no way in > which they can become unshared? Seems to be excessively > pessimistic? > Or is 2.5 not up to date? > Thanks. Hmm, that sounds different from what I see, I usually see between 75GB and 250GB of Committed_AS. OTOH that does seem "over the top", esp. since the ZONE_NORMAL OOM's usually hit with between 18GB and 30GB of ZONE_HIGHMEM totally untouched. Cheers, Bill -- 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/