Re: 2.2.16 - Crash

James Stevenson (mistral@stevenson.zetnet.co.uk)
Sat, 5 Aug 2000 23:38:55 GMT


Hi

i am just wondering what the file
/proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory
does or does it do nothing ?

thanks
James

>
>It depends on what resource limits you set. Linux does overcommit. You could
>add support for no overcommit fairly easily but I've not seen any patches for
>it on 2.2
>
>Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
>
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