On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 18:01 -0500, Alan Cox wrote: > On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 04:37:46PM -0500, Havoc Pennington wrote: > > > Maybe its telling you something about evolution > > > > Evolution does alloc a lot of memory (especially with as much mail as I > > have!) but it's well under 200M on a 512M system with swap, so ... ;-) > > Memory or address space. The overcommit is basically ensuring you don't > exceed Swap + 50%RAM of virtual address space allocated. > How much larger can the address space be than memory numbers from top? If it can be a lot larger in unpredictable ways that would keep us from turning on this setting by default. Havoc
