report on no-overcommit testing for diskless box

So after lots of patching I got my terminal running with no-overcommit. X wouldn't start at all - presumably it asks for more memory than is present and just doesn't use most of it normally.

If the patch becomes available for a recent 2.4.2-ac, I'll try it on a larger terminal with more memory. I can still crash a 64MB diskless x terminal by running xchat full screen (at 1152x900x16bit) - hopefully no-overcommit will indeed cure bigger machines like this one.

I guess small-mem embedded will need to both patch X _and_ run no-overcommit for stability.

regards,
David

David L. Parsley
Network Administrator
Roanoke College
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