Running with vm.overcommit_memory=2

Ralf Ertzinger fedora-devel at camperquake.de
Fri Feb 18 15:25:09 UTC 2005


Hi.

Rik van Riel <riel at redhat.com> wrote:

> 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.

How much memory does it take to clone() a bash?

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