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Comment by josefx

> if overcommit is disabled, then the system drops its internal caches (dentry cache, pagecache) to satisfy a memory allocation.

Couldn't the system just reserve the pages for future use by the application but still use them for caching until the application actually tries to use them?

parent josefx 5 years ago

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