linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH v2 1/2] mm: tuning hardcoded reserved memory

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Date:	Fri, 1 Mar 2013 17:48:52 +0000
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Andrew Shewmaker <agshew@...il.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 1/2] mm: tuning hardcoded reserved memory

The 3% reserve was added to the original code *because* users kept hitting
problems where they couldn't recover. 

I suspect the tunable should nowdays be something related to min(3%,
someconstant), at the time we did the 3% I think 1GB was an "enterprise
system" ;)

Alan
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