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diff --git a/Documentation/vm/overcommit-accounting.rst b/Documentation/vm/overcommit-accounting.rst index 0dd54bbe4afa..1addb0c374a4 100644 --- a/Documentation/vm/overcommit-accounting.rst +++ b/Documentation/vm/overcommit-accounting.rst @@ -34,7 +34,8 @@ The Linux kernel supports the following overcommit handling modes The overcommit policy is set via the sysctl ``vm.overcommit_memory``. The overcommit amount can be set via ``vm.overcommit_ratio`` (percentage) -or ``vm.overcommit_kbytes`` (absolute value). +or ``vm.overcommit_kbytes`` (absolute value). These only have an effect +when ``vm.overcommit_memory`` is set to 2. The current overcommit limit and amount committed are viewable in ``/proc/meminfo`` as CommitLimit and Committed_AS respectively. |