Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 05 Apr 2005 10:49:11 +0200 | From | Martin Egholm Nielsen <> | Subject | Re: Overcommit_memory logic fails when swap is off |
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Hello there,
After 2½ year I stumbled over this thread:
> On Wed, 2002-08-21 at 13:23, Alan Cox wrote: >> 2.5 propses including the ability to set the %age between the 0% of >> mode 3, the 50 of mode 2 and upwards to things relevant in some >> embedded system cases. So for 2.6 you will be able to tune it in >> different ways according to precise understanding of workload. > Alan, hch or someone asked if it would be possible to merge the 2.5 > behavior into 2.4-ac ... are you interested or do you not want to > break compatibility?
> Note for "mode 2" the behavior is identical. For "mode 3" they would > also need to set vm_memory_ratio to "0".
> If you are willing, I'll send you a diff... > Robert Love As I can see, the patch never made it in 2.4.x, right?! So, I would like a diff - if still possible :-)
I know it's been a while, but I'm stuck with a 2.4 kernel for my embedded device and have problems with the OOM...
Best regards, Martin Egholm
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