Re: [PATCH] 2.5-rmap: VM strict overcommit

[William Lee Irwin III]

At some point in the past, someone said:
>> When the kernel grabs over 50% of RAM. Remember that includes page
>> tables. I've seen the kernel taking 35% of RAM.

On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 12:20:52AM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> But it could happen that kernel would attempt to allocate 101% of RAM
> for page tables, right? At that even "paranoid overcommit" might be
> OOM, right?

There is already accounting for this, so it is no longer necessary to
let them fly below the kernel's radar.

Cheers,
Bill