On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 09:02:00PM +0100, Ralf Ertzinger wrote: > I know it'd be suicide to try and correct you on linux kernel issues, > but reading the kernel documentation in Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt > I had guessed that "0" means "no overcommit". 0 - heuristic no overcommit (guess) 1 - overcommit arbitarily (some scientific workloads) 2 - no overcommit The 0/1/2 is because modes 0/1 existed long before we added strict no overcommit to the RHEL3 product and 2.6 upstream
