Re: the new VMt

From: Stephen C. Tweedie (sct@redhat.com)
Date: Tue Sep 26 2000 - 12:08:20 EST


Hi,

On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 11:02:48AM -0600, Erik Andersen wrote:

> Another approach would be to let user space turn off overcommit.

No. Overcommit only applies to pageable memory. Beancounter is
really needed for non-pageable resources such as page tables and
mlock()ed pages.

Cheers,
 Stephen
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/



This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Sat Sep 30 2000 - 21:00:18 EST