From 9488c5b2fd0cc51ed984c265b9bec73beb8f73ba Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dmitry Novik Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2022 17:48:11 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Update docs/en/operations/settings/memory-overcommit.md Co-authored-by: alesapin --- docs/en/operations/settings/memory-overcommit.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/docs/en/operations/settings/memory-overcommit.md b/docs/en/operations/settings/memory-overcommit.md index e36678de3df..c0dfc094ece 100644 --- a/docs/en/operations/settings/memory-overcommit.md +++ b/docs/en/operations/settings/memory-overcommit.md @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Memory overcommit is an experimental technique intended to allow to set more flexible memory limits for queries. -The idea of this technique is to introduce settings which can represent guaranteed memory amount of memory a query can use. +The idea of this technique is to introduce settings which can represent guaranteed amount of memory a query can use. When memory overcommit is enabled and memory limit is reached ClickHouse will select the most overcommit query and try to free memory by killing this query. When memory limit is reached any query will wait some time during atempt to allocate new memory.