Re: Overcomittable memory

From: Rask Ingemann Lambertsen (rask-linux@kampsax.k-net.dk)
Date: Wed Mar 15 2000 - 08:50:25 EST


Den 13-Mar-00 22:16:31 skrev James Sutherland fĝlgende om "Re: Overcomittable memory (Was: Linux 2.2.15pre12)":

> If you REALLY want to allow for the worst case: Each process has an
> address space of 3 Gb (+1Gb kernel). Your method would require, for a
> sytem with a hard limit of 1024 processes, a minimum of 3Tb swap+RAM. You
> can try this if you want, but I don't think many people will follow this.

   Somewhere along the line you misunderstood something fundamental. What
it is that makes you conclude that you cannot have a system with no
overcomitment of memory and, say, 64 MiB RAM + swap combined and a hard
limit of 4096 processes?

Regards,

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