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From: Anton Berezin <tobez@tobez.org>
To: Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@ofug.org>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/vm vm_map.c vm_map.h vm_pageout.c
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On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 11:34:44PM +0100, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> Phil Regnauld <regnauld@catpipe.net> writes:
> > Idea: a "contract" mechanism by which a process registers to the kernel and
> > says "ok, during my life, I will never go over X MB RAM (effective, not
> > overcommit)".  Warning: this is not a malloc, just a hint.
> 
> man setrlimit

setrlimit is a contract signed by a process, while what Phil suggests is
a contract signed by a process _and_ the kernel.

=Anton.

P.S. Dag-Erling, did you read Phil's mail, or did you hit `r' as soon as
     you read the first paragraph?
-- 
It's a short step from "rigor" to "rigor mortis". -- Chip Salzenberg

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