The 3% reserve was added to the original code *because* users kept hitting problems where they couldn't recover.
I suspect the tunable should nowdays be something related to min(3%, someconstant), at the time we did the 3% I think 1GB was an "enterprise system" ;) 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/
