Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 16:55:04 -0300 (BRST) From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br> To: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> Cc: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>, Archie Cobbs <archie@dellroad.org>, Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, Peter Seebach <seebs@plethora.net>, <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Setting memory allocators for library functions. Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0102261654190.5502-100000@duckman.distro.conectiva> In-Reply-To: <3A9AAB02.793A197A@newsguy.com>
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On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > Matt Dillon wrote: > > :Matt Dillon wrote: > > :> > > :.. > > :> the system runs out of memory, even *with* overcommit protection. > > :> In fact, all sorts of side effects occur even when the system > > :... > > : > > :That's an assumption. > > > > Ha. Right. Go through any piece of significant code and just see how > > much goes flying out the window because the code wants to simply assume > > things work. Then try coding conditionals all the way through to fix > > it... and don't forget you need to propogate the error condition back > > up the procedure chain too so the original caller knows why it failed. > > <sarcasm>Perhaps you should re-acquaint yourself with exception > handlers, And just where are you going to grow the cache when the exception handler runs off the edge of the current stack page ? Rik -- Linux MM bugzilla: http://linux-mm.org/bugzilla.shtml Virtual memory is like a game you can't win; However, without VM there's truly nothing to lose... http://www.surriel.com/ http://www.conectiva.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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