From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2002 18:07:26 -0700 From: "Martin J. Bligh" Reply-To: "Martin J. Bligh" Subject: Re: overcommit stuff Message-ID: <20335180.1032631645@[10.10.2.3]> In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Hugh Dickins Cc: Andrew Morton , Alan Cox , linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: > 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. -- 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/