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authorAnssi Hannula <anssi.hannula@iki.fi>2021-12-11 22:41:59 +0300
committerJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>2021-12-17 01:53:22 +0300
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docs/vm: clarify overcommit amount sysctl behavior
Documentation/vm/overcommit-accounting.rst says that the overcommit amount can be set via vm.overcommit_ratio and vm.overcommit_kbytes. Add a clarification that those only take effect in overcommit handling mode 2 ("Don't overcommit"), i.e. they do not act as an "additional" limit that is always enforced. Signed-off-by: Anssi Hannula <anssi.hannula@iki.fi> Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211211194159.3137362-1-anssi.hannula@iki.fi Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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