Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 23 Mar 2001 22:09:23 +0200 (MET DST) | From | Szabolcs Szakacsits <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Prevent OOM from killing init |
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On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
> I'd like to have it there as an option. As to the default - You > would have to see how much applications assume they can overcommit > and rely on it. You might find you need a few Gbytes of swap just to > boot
Seems a bit exaggeration ;) Here are numbers,
http://lists.openresources.com/NetBSD/tech-userlevel/msg00722.html
6-50% more VM and the performance hit also isn't so bad as it's thought (Eduardo Horvath sent a non-overcommit patch for Linux about one year ago).
Szaka
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