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Subject: RE: Commenting out out_of_memory() function in __alloc_pages()
Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2006 17:33:22 +0530
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>Use less memory ?
>
>You can play with /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_ratio. That is set at 50%
>which is usually a good safe value with swap. If you know the kernel and
>kernel memory will be 20% of memory worst case you can set it to 80 and
>so on.

Thanks again.

Can you please elaborate again on the last line!.

Regards,
Abu.