From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261615AbVDEIvf (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Apr 2005 04:51:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261640AbVDEIvJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Apr 2005 04:51:09 -0400 Received: from mail.freepaq.dk ([213.150.59.107]:27411 "EHLO mail.freepaq.dk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261615AbVDEItS (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Apr 2005 04:49:18 -0400 Message-ID: <42525107.6060807@egholm-nielsen.dk> Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2005 10:49:11 +0200 From: Martin Egholm Nielsen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050319 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Overcommit_memory logic fails when swap is off Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hello there, After 2½ year I stumbled over this thread: > On Wed, 2002-08-21 at 13:23, Alan Cox wrote: >> 2.5 propses including the ability to set the %age between the 0% of >> mode 3, the 50 of mode 2 and upwards to things relevant in some >> embedded system cases. So for 2.6 you will be able to tune it in >> different ways according to precise understanding of workload. > Alan, hch or someone asked if it would be possible to merge the 2.5 > behavior into 2.4-ac ... are you interested or do you not want to > break compatibility? > Note for "mode 2" the behavior is identical. For "mode 3" they would > also need to set vm_memory_ratio to "0". > If you are willing, I'll send you a diff... > Robert Love As I can see, the patch never made it in 2.4.x, right?! So, I would like a diff - if still possible :-) I know it's been a while, but I'm stuck with a 2.4 kernel for my embedded device and have problems with the OOM... Best regards, Martin Egholm