From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jul 16 3:18:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (Haldjas.folklore.ee [193.40.6.121]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5080814FCC for ; Fri, 16 Jul 1999 03:18:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee) Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (haldjas.folklore.ee [172.17.2.1] (may be forged)) by haldjas.folklore.ee (8.8.8/8.8.4) with SMTP id NAA27975; Fri, 16 Jul 1999 13:15:55 +0300 (EEST) Date: Fri, 16 Jul 1999 13:15:55 +0300 (EEST) From: Narvi To: lyndon@orthanc.ab.ca Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, tech-userlevel@netbsd.org Subject: Re: Swap overcommit (was Re: Replacement for grep(1) (part 2)) In-Reply-To: <199907152353.RAA35007@orthanc.ab.ca> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [cc: list trimmed] On Thu, 15 Jul 1999 lyndon@orthanc.ab.ca wrote: > > In that scenario, the 512MB of swap I assigned to this machine would be > > dangerously low. > > With 13GB disks available for a couple of hundred bucks, my machines aren't > going to run out of swap space any time soon, even if I commit to disk. > > All I want for Christmas is a knob to disable overcommit. > > --lyndon > CVSup the source repository and start writing. Sander There is no love, no good, no happiness and no future - all these are just illusions. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message