From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from linuxjedi.org (IDENT:root@localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by penguin.roanoke.edu (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f2SG8mn12727 for ; Wed, 28 Mar 2001 11:08:48 -0500 Message-ID: <3AC20CB9.9053F8C8@linuxjedi.org> Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 11:09:29 -0500 From: "David L. Parsley" MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: report on no-overcommit testing for diskless box Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: So after lots of patching I got my terminal running with no-overcommit. X wouldn't start at all - presumably it asks for more memory than is present and just doesn't use most of it normally. If the patch becomes available for a recent 2.4.2-ac, I'll try it on a larger terminal with more memory. I can still crash a 64MB diskless x terminal by running xchat full screen (at 1152x900x16bit) - hopefully no-overcommit will indeed cure bigger machines like this one. I guess small-mem embedded will need to both patch X _and_ run no-overcommit for stability. regards, David -- David L. Parsley Network Administrator Roanoke College -- 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/