David Whysong <dwhysong@physics.ucsb.edu>:
> On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, Marco Colombo wrote:
> >On 22 Mar 2000, Olaf Weber wrote:
[SNIP]
> >IFAIK, older linux versions had no overcommitting. The kernel *evolved*
> >from a non-overcommitting mm to a overcommitting one.
>
> No, it has overcommitted memory almost since the beginning. These comments
> are from linux 1.0.0, in mm/memory.c. Note the dates:
>
> /*
> * demand-loading started 01.12.91 - seems it is high on the list of
> * things wanted, and it should be easy to implement. - Linus
> */
>
> /*
> * Ok, demand-loading was easy, shared pages a little bit tricker. Shared
> * pages started 02.12.91, seems to work. - Linus.
> *
> * Tested sharing by executing about 30 /bin/sh: under the old kernel it
> * would have taken more than the 6M I have free, but it worked well as
> * far as I could see.
> *
> * Also corrected some "invalidate()"s - I wasn't doing enough of them.
> */
I thought this was referring to shared text....
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