slow hard drives crushing interactivity
Alan Cox
alan at redhat.com
Tue Jan 25 20:08:18 UTC 2005
On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 09:02:00PM +0100, Ralf Ertzinger wrote:
> 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".
0 - heuristic no overcommit (guess)
1 - overcommit arbitarily (some scientific workloads)
2 - no overcommit
The 0/1/2 is because modes 0/1 existed long before we added strict no
overcommit to the RHEL3 product and 2.6 upstream
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