From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Feb 26 17:57:19 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from guild.plethora.net (guild.plethora.net [205.166.146.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56CFA37B401 for ; Mon, 26 Feb 2001 17:57:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from seebs@guild.plethora.net) Received: from guild.plethora.net (seebs@localhost.plethora.net [127.0.0.1]) by guild.plethora.net (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id f1R1vE627084 for ; Mon, 26 Feb 2001 19:57:14 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <200102270157.f1R1vE627084@guild.plethora.net> From: seebs@plethora.net (Peter Seebach) Reply-To: seebs@plethora.net (Peter Seebach) To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [hackers] Re: Setting memory allocators for library functions. In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 27 Feb 2001 01:37:43 GMT." <20010227013743.H609@hand.dotat.at> Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 19:57:13 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message