Re: Overcommitable memory??

From: David Whysong (dwhysong@physics.ucsb.edu)
Date: Tue Mar 21 2000 - 23:22:30 EST


On 21 Mar 2000, Rask Ingemann Lambertsen wrote:
>Den 20-Mar-00 04:59:33 skrev David Whysong:

>> It has already been shown on this list that
>> # echo 0 > /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory
>> does not, in fact, disable memory overcommit.
>
> I know, I did it. So do we agree that it is a bug when setting
>/proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory to 0 does not disable memory overcommit?

Hell no. It's documented behavior. It's the intended behavior. It is not a
bug.

Dave

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