Re: Pre-allocation of shared memory ...

On Sat, Jun 14, 2003 at 08:32:40PM +0100, Matthew Kirkwood wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Jun 2003, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> 
> > The trouble with this advice is that if I am an SA wanting to run a
> > DBMS server, I will want to run a kernel supplied by a vendor, not an
> > arbitrary kernel released by a developer, even one as respected as
> > Alan Cox.
> 
> Like, say, Red Hat:
> 
> $ ls -l /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root            0 Jun 14 18:58 /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory
> $ uname -a
> Linux stinky.hoopy.net 2.4.20-20.1.1995.2.2.nptl #1 Fri May 23 12:18:31 EDT 2003 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux


I also got that /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory on a plain 2.4.21.


Kurt