Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 09:41:17 +0200 From: Michael Schuster - TSC SunOS Germany <michael.schuster@germany.sun.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Swap overcommit (was Re: Replacement for grep(1) (part 2)) Message-ID: <378D909D.4AB16D77@germany.sun.com>
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Hi everyone, I've been following this discussion almost from the beginning, and I have the feeling that we're not _really_ getting very far. There's good arguments for and against overcommit, depending on your point of view and your requirements. What I do see is a not-so-openly voiced consent that the way resource(sp?) shortages are handled in an overcommitting system (SIGKILL) makes some of us rather unhappy. I therefore suggest those of us who would like to see a change in this area pool their efforts and energies to work on a mechanism that handles resource shortage in a more graceful way. cheerio Michael -- Michael.Schuster@germany.sun.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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