Re: gnuplot slow on BIG files

[Ethan M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Thursday 09 June 2005 04:11 pm, Dimitrios Apostolou wrote:
> I agree with you and don't like overcommit mode myself. How do you turn
> it off?

 The overcommit policy is set via the sysctl `vm.overcommit_memory'.
 The overcommit percentage is set via `vm.overcommit_ratio'.

=46rom the command line:
 echo "0" >/proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory    # turn overcommit off

The /proc/sys/vm  mechanism is fairly recent. I don't remember
exactly which kernel version it first appeared in.


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Ethan A Merritt
Biomolecular Structure Center
University of Washington 98195-7742