From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 17:13:46 -0400 (EDT) From: Eric Lowe Subject: Re: the new VMt In-Reply-To: <20000926180820.E1343@redhat.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: "Stephen C. Tweedie" Cc: yodaiken@fsmlabs.com, MM mailing list , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hello, > > Another approach would be to let user space turn off overcommit. > > No. Overcommit only applies to pageable memory. Beancounter is > really needed for non-pageable resources such as page tables and > mlock()ed pages. > In addition to beancounter, do you think pageable page tables are something we want to tackle in 2.5.x? 4MB page mappings on x86 could be cool too, as an option... -- Eric Lowe FibreChannel Software Engineer, Systran Corporation elowe@systran.com -- 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/