Re: 2.2.16 - Crash

From: James Stevenson (mistral@stevenson.zetnet.co.uk)
Date: Sat Aug 05 2000 - 19:38:55 EDT

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    Hi

    i am just wondering what the file
    /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory
    does or does it do nothing ?

    thanks
            James

    >
    >It depends on what resource limits you set. Linux does overcommit. You could
    >add support for no overcommit fairly easily but I've not seen any patches for
    >it on 2.2
    >
    >Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
    >
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