At some point in the past, someone said:
>> When the kernel grabs over 50% of RAM. Remember that includes page
>> tables. I've seen the kernel taking 35% of RAM.
On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 12:20:52AM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> But it could happen that kernel would attempt to allocate 101% of RAM
> for page tables, right? At that even "paranoid overcommit" might be
> OOM, right?
There is already accounting for this, so it is no longer necessary to
let them fly below the kernel's radar.
Cheers,
Bill
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