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Date:      Tue, 13 Jul 1999 18:12:35 +0900 (JST)
From:      Noriyuki Soda <soda@sra.co.jp>
To:        bright@rush.net, dcs@newsguy.com
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, jon@oaktree.co.uk, tech-userlevel@netbsd.org, tech@openbsd.org
Subject:   Re: Replacement for grep(1) (part 2)
Message-ID:  <199907130912.SAA07964@srapc342.sra.co.jp>

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> You're browsing with netscape and It hits about 32megs in size,
> you click on a multimedia object and netscape execs a helper app.

If the system has real vfork(2) like NetBSD, this is not problem.

> you also have to consider a program wishing to make sparse use
> of its address space, without overcommit it becomes impossible.

SVR4 has MAP_NORESERVE option for mmap(2) for this.
So, default behaivour don't have to be overcommitment.
--
soda


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