On Thu, 28 Aug 2008, david@xxxxxxx wrote:
I just asked on the kernel mailing list and Alan Cox responded.
he is saying that you are correct, it only allocates against the total
available, it doesn't actually allocate ram.
That was remarkably graceful of you. Yes, operating systems have worked
that way for decades - it's the beauty of copy-on-write.
but you do need to allocate more swap as the total memory 'used' can be
significantly higher that with overcommit on.
Yes, that's right.
Matthew
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