From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jul 15 8:18: 1 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B96015594 for ; Thu, 15 Jul 1999 08:17:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) id AAA13652; Fri, 16 Jul 1999 00:16:43 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <378DF2C9.62BF4D81@newsguy.com> Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 23:40:09 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Danny Thomas Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, tech-userlevel@netbsd.org Subject: Re: Swap overcommit References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Danny Thomas wrote: > > >Killing the biggest is simple to implement and usually right. > ... but some people don't want that policy, at least on some of their > systems. Does FreeBSD offer alternatives? Is so, they've been conspicuously > absent from discussion, which might have taken things into a more > productive vein. What do other over-committing systems offer? Absent, eh? FreeBSD offers soft and hard limits on resources. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "Would you like to go out with me?" "I'd love to." "Oh, well, n... err... would you?... ahh... huh... what do I do next?" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message