Re: PATCH: Root reservations for strict overcommit

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On Tuesday 31 August 2004 19:37, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Maw, 2004-08-31 at 18:13, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> > Would it be a problem to put a lower bound on how much to leave for
> > root? If it's really too small to be useful, perhaps one of (a) reserve
> > enough to be useful or (b) don't bother to reserve at all, should be
>
> Possibly. I'm currently following what someone appears to have decided
> is correct behaviour. It probably should be tunable

I believe it makes more sense to describe it as KB instead of %. Noone should 
have to reserve 120MB for root on a 4G box. Even if it is tunable, memory 
size seems better than percent since you'll not have to change it when you 
add/remove memory from your box.

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