From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jul 15 16:58:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from axl.noc.iafrica.com (axl.noc.iafrica.com [196.31.1.175]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16CF514CB7 for ; Thu, 15 Jul 1999 16:58:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sheldonh@axl.noc.iafrica.com) Received: from sheldonh (helo=axl.noc.iafrica.com) by axl.noc.iafrica.com with local-esmtp (Exim 3.02 #1) id 114vMv-000L2F-00; Fri, 16 Jul 1999 01:56:49 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn To: lyndon@orthanc.ab.ca Cc: Matthew Dillon , sthaug@nethelp.no, rock@dead-end.net, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, tech-userlevel@netbsd.org Subject: Re: Swap overcommit (was Re: Replacement for grep(1) (part 2)) In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 15 Jul 1999 17:53:52 CST." <199907152353.RAA35007@orthanc.ab.ca> Date: Fri, 16 Jul 1999 01:56:49 +0200 Message-ID: <80862.932083009@axl.noc.iafrica.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 15 Jul 1999 17:53:52 CST, lyndon@orthanc.ab.ca wrote: > All I want for Christmas is a knob to disable overcommit. And what I'm pretty sure the majority of the readers on this list want is for those of you who really think it's necessary to do it yourselves. What? Nobody who wants to disable the policy knows how to do it? Hmmm, I wonder whether that's significant... Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message