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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 16:57:48 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1027209468.1555.893.camel@sinai> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1027213626.16819.74.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk>

On Sat, 2002-07-20 at 18:07, Alan Cox wrote:

> Ok I take that back. It merely never got as far into my brain as to stay
> stuck. 

No problem.

> Lets go with a sysctl tuned value and see what the 2.5 world finds the
> best numbers to be ?

Great idea.  This allows pedants with swap to use 0, others to use 50,
and those without swap to pick whatever works for them (e.g. 65% as you
suggest).

	Robert Love


  reply	other threads:[~2002-07-20 23:55 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
2002-07-21  1:07       ` Alan Cox
2002-07-20 23:57         ` Robert Love [this message]
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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