From: Mason <slash.tmp@free.fr>
To: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
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 14:15:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5735C567.6030202@free.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160513114429.GJ20141@dhcp22.suse.cz>
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?
Regards.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-05-13 12:15 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 [this message]
2016-05-13 14:01 ` Michal Hocko
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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