From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Feb 27 10: 3:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from earth.backplane.com (earth-nat-cw.backplane.com [208.161.114.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2B3B37B719 for ; Tue, 27 Feb 2001 10:03:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon@earth.backplane.com) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by earth.backplane.com (8.11.2/8.9.3) id f1RI2N058049; Tue, 27 Feb 2001 10:02:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 10:02:23 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Dillon Message-Id: <200102271802.f1RI2N058049@earth.backplane.com> To: "Daniel C. Sobral" Cc: Archie Cobbs , Warner Losh , Peter Seebach , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Setting memory allocators for library functions. References: <200102260529.f1Q5T8413011@curve.dellroad.org> <200102260628.f1Q6SYX29811@earth.backplane.com> <3A9A0A9A.E4D31F97@newsguy.com> <200102261755.f1QHtvr34064@earth.backplane.com> <3A9AAB02.793A197A@newsguy.com> <200102261940.f1QJeJi38115@earth.backplane.com> <3A9B6548.E298F857@newsguy.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Daniel, you don't have to believe me, I really don't care. I hear this argument once or twice a year and those of who actually have experience (except for Terry, who always likes to argue theory) already know what the reality is. Come back in a year or two after you've wasted a thousand man hours trying to implement your little beast, tried to use it for something non trivial, and found that it doesn't work the way you expect. I've heard the solaris argument before two, though until you came along I didn't actually hear someone try to propound that running a machine out of memory on purpose wouldn't have any unwanted side effects. That's a new one.. and a good laugh. But it isn't reality. -Matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message