Anssi Hannula dc10ec9879 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>
2021-12-16 15:53:22 -07:00
2021-12-05 14:08:22 -08:00

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