Re: Linux 2.4.23-rc5

[Pascal Schmidt]

On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 17:50:20 +0100, you wrote in linux.kernel:

>    "overcommit_memory < 0" supposed to not allow apps to overallocate 
> memory - but still it works not like it is said in 
> Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt.

Actually, looking at vm_enough_memory in mm/mmap.c in 2.4, which seems to
be the only user of sysctl_overcommit_memory, it is just used directly in
an if clause:

	if (sysctl_overcommit_memory)
		return 1;
		
This means any value different from 0 will turn overcommit on, no matter
whether positive or negative value.

Documentation bug, I would say.

-- 
Ciao,
Pascal
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