From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Abu M. Muttalib" Subject: RE: Commenting out out_of_memory() function in __alloc_pages() Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2006 17:33:22 +0530 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-reply-to: <1152446997.27368.52.camel@localhost.localdomain> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Alan Cox Cc: Robert Hancock , chase.venters@clientec.com, kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org, linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm List-ID: >Use less memory ? > >You can play with /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_ratio. That is set at 50% >which is usually a good safe value with swap. If you know the kernel and >kernel memory will be 20% of memory worst case you can set it to 80 and >so on. Thanks again. Can you please elaborate again on the last line!. Regards, Abu. -- 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