slow hard drives crushing interactivity

[Alan Cox]

On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 04:37:46PM -0500, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> > Maybe its telling you something about evolution
> 
> Evolution does alloc a lot of memory (especially with as much mail as I
> have!) but it's well under 200M on a 512M system with swap, so ... ;-)

Memory or address space. The overcommit is basically ensuring you don't
exceed Swap + 50%RAM of virtual address space allocated.