Re: the new VMt

[Eric Lowe]

Hello,

> > Another approach would be to let user space turn off overcommit.  
> 
> No.  Overcommit only applies to pageable memory.  Beancounter is
> really needed for non-pageable resources such as page tables and
> mlock()ed pages.
> 

In addition to beancounter, do you think pageable page tables are
something we want to tackle in 2.5.x?  4MB page mappings on x86
could be cool too, as an option...

--
Eric Lowe
FibreChannel Software Engineer, Systran Corporation
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