>It's explained in Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt. This file know far >ore things than me :-) I tried with overcommit_ratio=100 and overcommit_memory=2 in that sequence. but the applications were killed. :-( Regards, Abu. -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/