From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 13 15:45:58 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from sraigw.sra.co.jp (sraigw.sra.co.jp [202.32.10.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 180D61533B; Tue, 13 Jul 1999 15:45:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from soda@sra.co.jp) Received: from sranhf.sra.co.jp (sranhf [133.137.28.3]) by sraigw.sra.co.jp (8.8.7/3.7W-sraigw) with ESMTP id HAA25751; Wed, 14 Jul 1999 07:45:03 +0900 (JST) Received: from srapc342.sra.co.jp (srapc342 [133.137.28.111]) by sranhf.sra.co.jp (8.8.7/3.6Wbeta7-srambox) with ESMTP id HAA04884; Wed, 14 Jul 1999 07:45:01 +0900 (JST) Received: (from soda@localhost) by srapc342.sra.co.jp (8.8.8/3.4W-sra) id HAA15198; Wed, 14 Jul 1999 07:45:02 +0900 (JST) Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 07:45:02 +0900 (JST) Message-Id: <199907132245.HAA15198@srapc342.sra.co.jp> From: Noriyuki Soda To: Matthew Dillon Cc: Noriyuki Soda , Jason Thorpe , "Brian F. Feldman" , bright@rush.net, dcs@newsguy.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, jon@oaktree.co.uk, tech-userlevel@netbsd.org Subject: Re: Replacement for grep(1) (part 2) In-Reply-To: <199907132229.PAA81360@apollo.backplane.com> References: <199907132127.OAA80947@apollo.backplane.com> <199907132139.GAA14890@srapc342.sra.co.jp> <199907132153.OAA81153@apollo.backplane.com> <199907132215.HAA15042@srapc342.sra.co.jp> <199907132229.PAA81360@apollo.backplane.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>> On Tue, 13 Jul 1999 15:29:37 -0700 (PDT), Matthew Dillon said: > In the same manner any truely critical system server must handle the > resource management itself to deal with all sorts of problem situations, > including memory. You do not need to build any of this control into the > kernel. : [snip] : > To say that FreeBSD does not support a certain class of system because > it uses an overcommit model is not correct, because you can trivially > solve the problem by implementing your own management of memory rather > then use the UNIX libc builtins. That's wrong. The application might be killed by SIGKILL on current FreeBSD implementation, when the system becomes swap shortage. -- soda To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message