From: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: akpm@zip.com.au, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
riel@conectiva.com.br, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] VM strict overcommit
Date: 20 Jul 2002 16:56:44 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1027209404.1085.891.camel@sinai> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1027213161.16818.65.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk>
On Sat, 2002-07-20 at 17:59, Alan Cox wrote:
> When did you send me mail - I certainly never saw it.
I can forward you the email if you like. Same goes for your reply :)
> If its actually a serious concern, eg for some of the weirder embedded
> stuff you guys run at Montavista then I'd suggest changing it to have
> three modes
>
> 0 and 1 as before
>
> 2 - some percentage of memory (default 50), and expose the percentage
> setting by sysctl too.
>
> That allows people to experiment, handles weird cases and deals with the
> problem.
This is the way to go -- we should do this. Good idea.
Robert Love
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-07-20 23:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-07-20 20:20 Robert Love
2002-07-21 0:32 ` Alan Cox
2002-07-20 23:30 ` Robert Love
2002-07-21 0:59 ` Alan Cox
2002-07-20 23:56 ` Robert Love [this message]
2002-07-21 1:07 ` Alan Cox
2002-07-20 23:57 ` Robert Love
2002-07-21 1:21 ` Alan Cox
2002-07-21 0:54 ` Alan Cox
2002-07-20 23:48 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-07-21 1:05 ` Alan Cox
2002-07-21 0:09 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-07-21 0:12 ` Rik van Riel
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