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From: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com>
To: Helge Hafting <helgehaf@aitel.hist.no>
Cc: Rahul Karnik <rahul@genebrew.com>,
	rusty@linux.co.intel.com, riel@conectiva.com.br,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Enabling other oom schemes
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 10:07:30 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F61D322.7020507@nortelnetworks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030912111808.GA13973@hh.idb.hist.no>

Helge Hafting wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 12:31:27AM -0400, Chris Friesen wrote:

> Note that this "memory" is RAM+swap.  So you can avoid allocation
> failure by giving your strict overcommit box much more swap space.

This works great for the desktop, doesn't work so well when you don't 
have any swap--as is the case for most embedded apps that would like 
stricter overcommit.

Chris



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  reply	other threads:[~2003-09-12 14:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-09-12  2:19 Rusty Lynch
2003-09-12  4:18 ` Rahul Karnik
2003-09-12  4:31   ` Chris Friesen
2003-09-12  4:40     ` Rahul Karnik
2003-09-12  4:48       ` Robert Love
2003-09-12 11:18     ` Helge Hafting
2003-09-12 14:07       ` Chris Friesen [this message]
2003-09-12 14:30     ` M. Edward Borasky
2003-09-12  4:47   ` Robert Love
2003-09-13 17:48 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-13 20:52   ` Robert Love
2003-09-14  5:28     ` Chris Friesen
2003-09-15  0:11     ` Mike S

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