Re: Pre-allocation of shared memory ...

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

(This is a Rawhide kernel, but I think that control has been
in stock RH kernels for some time now.)

Matthew.