Commit 7a9e6da1 authored by Petr Oros's avatar Petr Oros Committed by Jiri Kosina

doc: fix incorrect formula to calculate CommitLimit value

The formula to calculate "CommitLimit" value mentioned in kernel documentation is incorrect.
Right formula is: CommitLimit = ([total RAM pages] - [total huge TLB pages]) * overcommit_ratio / 100 + [total swap pages]
Signed-off-by: default avatarPetr Oros <poros@redhat.com>
Acked-by: default avatarRandy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
parent 221069be
......@@ -854,7 +854,8 @@ WritebackTmp: Memory used by FUSE for temporary writeback buffers
if strict overcommit accounting is enabled (mode 2 in
'vm.overcommit_memory').
The CommitLimit is calculated with the following formula:
CommitLimit = ('vm.overcommit_ratio' * Physical RAM) + Swap
CommitLimit = ([total RAM pages] - [total huge TLB pages]) *
overcommit_ratio / 100 + [total swap pages]
For example, on a system with 1G of physical RAM and 7G
of swap with a `vm.overcommit_ratio` of 30 it would
yield a CommitLimit of 7.3G.
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