Tag: KERNEL-2-2-18-PRE11-PATCH-11 Patch: overcommit-1 From: Andrea Arcangeli Make sure to not understimate the available memory (the cache and buffers may be under the min percent). Index: linux/mm/mmap.c diff -u linux/mm/mmap.c:1.2 linux/mm/mmap.c:1.2.4.1 --- linux/mm/mmap.c:1.2 Thu Sep 21 19:43:11 2000 +++ linux/mm/mmap.c Wed Sep 27 23:59:06 2000 @@ -66,7 +66,6 @@ free += page_cache_size; free += nr_free_pages; free += nr_swap_pages; - free -= (page_cache.min_percent + buffer_mem.min_percent + 2)*num_physpages/100; return free > pages; }