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Date:      Mon, 26 Feb 2001 14:02:23 -0600
From:      seebs@plethora.net (Peter Seebach)
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Setting memory allocators for library functions. 
Message-ID:  <200102262002.f1QK2N612484@guild.plethora.net>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 26 Feb 2001 16:53:23 -0300." <Pine.LNX.4.33.0102261650340.5502-100000@duckman.distro.conectiva> 

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In message <Pine.LNX.4.33.0102261650340.5502-100000@duckman.distro.conectiva>, 
>And maybe, just maybe, they'll succeed in getting their
>idea of non-overcommit working with a patch which doesn't
>change dozens of places in the kernel and doesn't add
>any measurable overhead.

If it adds overhead, fine, make it a kernel option.  :)

Anyway, no, I'm not going to contribute code right now.  If I get time
to do this at all, I'll probably do it to UVM first.

My main objection was to the claim that the C standard allows random
segfaults.  It doesn't.  And yes, bad hardware is a conformance violation.  :)

-s

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