Quoting Gus Wirth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
You seem to be unaware that you can turn the overcommit behavior off. The memory allocation behavior is controlled through the /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_* control, where * is either memory or ratio.
We've looked into this ourselves to, but have avoided doing much with it. We would run into far too many applications dying when they don't really need to because it's not at all uncommon to see some of these apps have a VM size that's massively larger then the resident size (and often the VM is more then the RAM in the system).
Some samples I just snagged... RES VM 7.53G 119.09G 60.53G 109.26G 4.35G 87.91G 4.00G 83.04G Crazy... -- Mike Marion-Unix/Linux Admin-http://www.miguelito.org Do not meddle in the affairs of sysadmins, for they are easy to annoy and have the root password. -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
