Re: Running with vm.overcommit_memory=2

[Rik van Riel <riel redhat com>]

On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, Ralf Ertzinger wrote:

> But after all it is the application that requests the memory (in most 
> cases, that is), and various programs allocate large chunks of memory 
> but never use it.

> So it seems I will file a kernel bug for this after all.

NOTABUG

You configured the kernel to not overcommit memory, so it won't.
It makes sure that all the memory that was requested is available
for programs to use, regardless of whether programs actually use it.

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