Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 16:55:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Todd Whitesel <toddpw@best.com> To: jkh@zippy.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: jon@oaktree.co.uk, dcs@newsguy.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, tech-userlevel@netbsd.org, tech@openbsd.org Subject: Re: Replacement for grep(1) (part 2) Message-ID: <199907122355.QAA01022@shell17.ba.best.com> In-Reply-To: <1336.931774684@zippy.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Jul 12, 99 03:18:04 am"
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> > Yuck. That's a complete abomination. What's the point of it? It's turning > > Paging Terry Lambert, Terry Lambert - do you read me? It's time for > your annual rant on the topic of memory overcommit. :-) It's not overcommit so much as it is what happens to a process that gets a page fault when there are no available pages to 'fix up' the overcommit. AIX began overcommitting at one point but would kill -9 any process that page faulted when there were no available pages. AIX sysadmins universally hated this behavior and allocated HUGE swap files to avoid it. I assume FreeBSD does something more reasonable. Todd Whitesel toddpw @ best.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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