linux-kernel - Re: __vm_enough_memory(), OVERCOMMIT

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Date:	Wed, 22 Oct 2008 14:35:16 +0900
From:	hooanon05@...oo.co.jp
To:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: __vm_enough_memory(), OVERCOMMIT_NEVER, current->mm, kernel thread 


> I guess
> - people don't care overcommit and leave it as default, so they don't
>   meet the problem 
> - people who cares overcommit has rich memory, and they don't meet the
>   problem too.

Correction: the problem is unrelated to the memory size.
I was sleepy when I wrote that.
Regardless the memory size, when nfsd writes to tmpfs the system surely
crashes.


Junjiro R. Okajima
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