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Date:      Mon, 26 Feb 2001 19:57:13 -0600
From:      seebs@plethora.net (Peter Seebach)
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [hackers] Re: Setting memory allocators for library functions. 
Message-ID:  <200102270157.f1R1vE627084@guild.plethora.net>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 27 Feb 2001 01:37:43 GMT." <20010227013743.H609@hand.dotat.at> 

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In message <20010227013743.H609@hand.dotat.at>, Tony Finch writes:
>fork() with big data segments that cause swap to be reserved in case
>of a copy-on-write. The 2GB of swap is never actually used, but you
>still have to have it.

That's a good point.  So, we should warn people that asking for memory
committments, having huge data spaces, and forking, is dangerous or stupid.

:)

-s

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