On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 02:09:55PM +0200, Hans Kristian Rosbach wrote: > [root@linux10 vm]# cat overcommit_memory > 0 > [root@linux10 vm]# cat overcommit_ratio > 50 > > Does this not mean that it is already off? 0 means "heuristic" - which tries to guess disaster but does overcommit 1 means "overcommit anything" - useful for some scientific computing things 2 means "strict" - limit is swap + ratio% of ram. > Another thing I notice is that while memory does get full, it > will not swap.. Even with 2.5GB free swap. memory full and memory all needed are different things. Keeping memory full is good so Linux will always try and do this.
