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From: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>
To: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>,
	Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: overcommit stuff
Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2002 18:07:26 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20335180.1032631645@[10.10.2.3]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0209220151030.2448-100000@localhost.localdomain>

> It is intended that you should be able to switch commit modes while
> running.  There is one hole there that we've not got around to
> plugging yet, the handling of MAP_NORESERVE, but otherwise I believe
> it makes sense: please don't take that away.

Not quite sure why you'd want to do that, but if you really do, 
I guess making a config option to disable this stuff is a possibility.

> I like to see those Committed_AS numbers (though I don't care for
> the "_AS" prefix), even though I run loose.

Well, there are cheaper ways of keeping it if it's just a stat for
meminfo ;-)

M.

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  reply	other threads:[~2002-09-22  1:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-09-21 23:27 Andrew Morton
2002-09-21 23:28 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-09-21 23:31 ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-09-22  0:03   ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-22  0:08     ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-09-22  1:04       ` Hugh Dickins
2002-09-22  1:07         ` Martin J. Bligh [this message]
2002-09-21 23:46 ` Hugh Dickins
2002-09-21 23:53   ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-22  0:49     ` Hugh Dickins
2002-09-22  1:07       ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-22  1:45         ` Hugh Dickins
2002-09-22  1:49           ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-21 23:53   ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-09-22  1:12     ` Andrew Morton

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