> Non-overcommit means large amounts of memory are required when forking
> of a new process. The standard example is a fat bloated Mozilla forking
> for printing. Non-overcommit means you need those 50 or 100 megs of
> Mozilla process size once more and if not as physical memory then at
> least as swap space. Deciede yourself if you're paranoid and want that
> operation to only succeed if that much memory is actually available or
> if you take the risk of the fork & exec operation failing the other way.
Your numbers are ridiculously off.
A mozilla instance on x86 commits 17Mb of potentially swap backed memory
when viewing the mozilla 1.0 start page. (Its actually a bit less but there
is delay in the garbage collector)
2.4.18/19-ac support non overcommit, and its rather useful
Alan
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