> What I understood from Arjan is that the problem isn't swapspace, but rather > that shared-libs are implement via a COW trick, which always overcommits, no > matter what.
The zero overcommit layer accounts address space not pages. > Are you saying there is some new no-overcommit functionality in 2.6.19, or > has this been there before? Red Hat Enterprise Linux for a very long time, got merged upstream a long long time ago to. Then got various fixes along the way. It's old functionality. Alan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/