On Monday 15 December 2003 11:06, Fabian Cenedese wrote: > Just out of curiosity: How is overcommit turned on? Is this a simple > setting or does it need patching? I had a look at google but only found > a lot of discussions about the usefulness of overcommit but not how to > use it. as root do: echo "1" > /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory -Hans