--- zzzz-none-000/linux-3.10.107/Documentation/vm/overcommit-accounting	2017-06-27 09:49:32.000000000 +0000
+++ scorpion-7490-727/linux-3.10.107/Documentation/vm/overcommit-accounting	2021-02-04 17:41:59.000000000 +0000
@@ -14,8 +14,8 @@
 
 2	-	Don't overcommit. The total address space commit
 		for the system is not permitted to exceed swap + a
-		configurable percentage (default is 50) of physical RAM.
-		Depending on the percentage you use, in most situations
+		configurable amount (default is 50%) of physical RAM.
+		Depending on the amount you use, in most situations
 		this means a process will not be killed while accessing
 		pages but will receive errors on memory allocation as
 		appropriate.
@@ -26,7 +26,8 @@
 
 The overcommit policy is set via the sysctl `vm.overcommit_memory'.
 
-The overcommit percentage is set via `vm.overcommit_ratio'.
+The overcommit amount can be set via `vm.overcommit_ratio' (percentage)
+or `vm.overcommit_kbytes' (absolute value).
 
 The current overcommit limit and amount committed are viewable in
 /proc/meminfo as CommitLimit and Committed_AS respectively.