slow hard drives crushing interactivity

Ralf Ertzinger fedora-devel at camperquake.de
Tue Jan 25 20:02:00 UTC 2005


Hi.

Alan Cox <alan at redhat.com> wrote:

> 2 and 50 assuming you have swap. In that mode the system will refuse to 
> let you create anything that might drive the box into overcommit.

I know it'd be suicide to try and correct you on linux kernel issues,
but reading the kernel documentation in Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
I had guessed that "0" means "no overcommit".

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