RE: Commenting out out_of_memory() function in __alloc_pages()

From: Alan Cox
Date: Sun Jul 09 2006 - 07:50:53 EST


Ar Sul, 2006-07-09 am 17:18 +0530, ysgrifennodd Abu M. Muttalib:
> but I am running the application on an embedded device and have no swap..
> what do I need to do in this case??

Use less memory ?

You can play with /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_ratio. That is set at 50%
which is usually a good safe value with swap. If you know the kernel and
kernel memory will be 20% of memory worst case you can set it to 80 and
so on.

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