From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-lb0-f199.google.com (mail-lb0-f199.google.com [209.85.217.199]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9FDD6B0260 for ; Fri, 13 May 2016 08:15:52 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail-lb0-f199.google.com with SMTP id ne4so27784701lbc.1 for ; Fri, 13 May 2016 05:15:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp2-g21.free.fr (smtp2-g21.free.fr. [2a01:e0c:1:1599::11]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id f2si3386760wma.79.2016.05.13.05.15.51 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Fri, 13 May 2016 05:15:51 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: add config option to select the initial overcommit mode References: <5731CC6E.3080807@laposte.net> <20160513080458.GF20141@dhcp22.suse.cz> <573593EE.6010502@free.fr> <20160513095230.GI20141@dhcp22.suse.cz> <5735AA0E.5060605@free.fr> <20160513114429.GJ20141@dhcp22.suse.cz> From: Mason Message-ID: <5735C567.6030202@free.fr> Date: Fri, 13 May 2016 14:15:35 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20160513114429.GJ20141@dhcp22.suse.cz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Michal Hocko Cc: Sebastian Frias , linux-mm@kvack.org, Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , LKML On 13/05/2016 13:44, Michal Hocko wrote: > Anyway, this is my laptop where I do not run anything really special > (xfce, browser, few consoles, git, mutt): > $ grep Commit /proc/meminfo > CommitLimit: 3497288 kB > Committed_AS: 3560804 kB > > I am running with the default overcommit setup so I do not care about > the limit but the Committed_AS will tell you how much is actually > committed. I am definitelly not out of memory: > $ free > total used free shared buff/cache available > Mem: 3922584 1724120 217336 105264 1981128 2036164 > Swap: 1535996 386364 1149632 I see. Thanks for the data point. I had a different type of system in mind. 256 to 512 MB of RAM, no swap. Perhaps Sebastian's choice could be made to depend on CONFIG_EMBEDDED, rather than CONFIG_EXPERT? Regards. -- 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/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org