On Fri, 20 Aug 2010, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Thomas Jampen wrote: > > > vm.overcommit_memory = 0 > > > > Do you propose to set this to '2' in order to disable overcommitting? > > It might be interesting to try > > echo 1 >/proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory > > but 0 is generally the only sane setting. Don't know the meaning for specific values, but you definitively don't want to turn off memory overcommit. Nicolas -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html