Re: [PATCH] strict VM overcommit accounting for 2.4.32/2.4.33-pre1

[Barry K. Nathan]

On 12/30/05, Willy Tarreau <willy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 07:17:46PM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
[snip discussion not directly related to the timing of my patch submission]
> > Also I think, to be honest, that this is a feature that is getting
> > unsuitable for the "bugfixes only" 2.4 kernel series....
>
> Agreed, it really is too late IMHO, because there's a non-null risk of
> introducing new bugs with it. It would have been cool a few months
> earlier. That won't stop me from trying it in my own tree however ;-)

Yeah, I know it's a little bit late. I wish I had been able to get
this done a few months ago... :(

Oh well, even if it doesn't get into the tree, at least it looks like
I might not be the only person to benefit from this patch. :) (BTW,
you'll probably also want the patch I just posted, which adds
Committed_AS to /proc/meminfo.)

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-Barry K. Nathan <barryn@xxxxxxxxx>
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