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From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
To: Mason <slash.tmp@free.fr>
Cc: Sebastian Frias <sf84@laposte.net>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: add config option to select the initial overcommit mode
Date: Fri, 13 May 2016 16:01:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160513140128.GQ20141@dhcp22.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5735C567.6030202@free.fr>

On Fri 13-05-16 14:15:35, Mason wrote:
> On 13/05/2016 13:44, Michal Hocko wrote:
> 
> > Anyway, this is my laptop where I do not run anything really special
> > (xfce, browser, few consoles, git, mutt):
> > $ grep Commit /proc/meminfo
> > CommitLimit:     3497288 kB
> > Committed_AS:    3560804 kB
> > 
> > I am running with the default overcommit setup so I do not care about
> > the limit but the Committed_AS will tell you how much is actually
> > committed. I am definitelly not out of memory:
> > $ free
> >               total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
> > Mem:        3922584     1724120      217336      105264     1981128     2036164
> > Swap:       1535996      386364     1149632
> 
> I see. Thanks for the data point.
> 
> I had a different type of system in mind.
> 256 to 512 MB of RAM, no swap.
> Perhaps Sebastian's choice could be made to depend on CONFIG_EMBEDDED,
> rather than CONFIG_EXPERT?

Even if the overcommit behavior is different on those systems the
primary question hasn't been answered yet. Why cannot this be done from
the userspace? In other words what wouldn't work properly?

-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs

  reply	other threads:[~2016-05-13 14:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-05-10 11:56 [PATCH] mm: add config option to select the initial overcommit mode Sebastian Frias
2016-05-10 12:00 ` Fwd: " Sebastian Frias
2016-05-10 12:39   ` Andy Whitcroft
2016-05-10 13:02     ` Sebastian Frias
2016-05-13  8:04 ` Michal Hocko
2016-05-13  8:44   ` Mason
2016-05-13  9:52     ` Michal Hocko
2016-05-13 10:18       ` Mason
2016-05-13 10:42         ` Sebastian Frias
2016-05-13 11:44         ` Michal Hocko
2016-05-13 12:15           ` Mason
2016-05-13 14:01             ` Michal Hocko [this message]
2016-05-13 14:15               ` Sebastian Frias
2016-05-13 15:04               ` One Thousand Gnomes
2016-05-13 15:37                 ` Sebastian Frias
2016-05-13 15:43                   ` One Thousand Gnomes
2016-05-17  8:24                     ` Sebastian Frias
2016-05-17  8:57                       ` Michal Hocko
2016-05-17 16:16                         ` Sebastian Frias
2016-05-17 17:29                           ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2016-05-18 15:19                             ` Sebastian Frias
2016-05-18 16:28                               ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2016-05-17 20:16                           ` Michal Hocko
2016-05-18 15:18                             ` Sebastian Frias
2016-05-19  7:14                               ` Michal Hocko
2016-05-13 17:01                   ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2016-05-13 13:27         ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2016-05-13  9:52     ` Sebastian Frias
2016-05-13 12:00       ` Michal Hocko
2016-05-13 12:39         ` Sebastian Frias
2016-05-13 13:11           ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2016-05-13 13:32             ` Sebastian Frias
2016-05-13 13:51               ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2016-05-13 14:35                 ` Sebastian Frias
2016-05-13 14:54                   ` Michal Hocko
2016-05-13 15:15                   ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2016-05-13 13:34             ` Sebastian Frias
2016-05-13 14:14               ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2016-05-13 14:23                 ` Sebastian Frias
2016-05-13 15:02                   ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2016-05-13 15:01               ` One Thousand Gnomes
2016-05-13 15:15                 ` Sebastian Frias
2016-05-13 15:25                   ` Michal Hocko
2016-05-13 14:51           ` Michal Hocko
2016-05-13 14:59             ` Mason
2016-05-13 15:11               ` One Thousand Gnomes
2016-05-13 15:26                 ` Michal Hocko
2016-05-13 15:32                 ` Sebastian Frias
2016-05-13 15:10             ` Sebastian Frias
2016-05-13 15:41               ` One Thousand Gnomes
2016-05-23 13:11                 ` Sebastian Frias
2016-05-17  9:03 ` Mason

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