From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from burns.conectiva (burns.conectiva [10.0.0.4]) by postfix.conectiva.com.br (Postfix) with SMTP id ED22716BCC for ; Fri, 6 Apr 2001 18:04:40 -0300 (EST) Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 18:04:58 -0300 (BRST) From: Rik van Riel Subject: Re: [PATCH] swap_state.c thinko In-Reply-To: <20010406222256.C935@athlon.random> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Linus Torvalds , Hugh Dickins , Ben LaHaise , Richard Jerrrell , Stephen Tweedie , arjanv@redhat.com, alan@redhat.com, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 12:52:26PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > vm_enough_memory() is a heuristic, nothing more. We want it to reflect > > _some_ view of reality, but the Linux VM is _fundamentally_ based on the > > notion of over-commit, and that won't change. vm_enough_memory() is only > > meant to give a first-order appearance of not overcommitting wildly. It > > has never been anything more than that. > > 200% agreed. I don't think we should approximate THAT roughly ;)) Rik -- Linux MM bugzilla: http://linux-mm.org/bugzilla.shtml Virtual memory is like a game you can't win; However, without VM there's truly nothing to lose... http://www.surriel.com/ http://www.conectiva.com/ http://distro.conectiva.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/