From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Feb 25 14: 4:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E5F837B65D for ; Sun, 25 Feb 2001 14:04:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from imp@billy-club.village.org) Received: from billy-club.village.org (billy-club.village.org [10.0.0.3]) by rover.village.org (8.11.2/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f1PM4bh84859; Sun, 25 Feb 2001 15:04:38 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@billy-club.village.org) Received: from billy-club.village.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by billy-club.village.org (8.11.2/8.8.3) with ESMTP id f1PM1fY00967; Sun, 25 Feb 2001 15:01:42 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <200102252201.f1PM1fY00967@billy-club.village.org> To: seebs@plethora.net (Peter Seebach) Subject: Re: Setting memory allocators for library functions. Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 25 Feb 2001 09:59:02 CST." <200102251559.f1PFx2627103@guild.plethora.net> References: <200102251559.f1PFx2627103@guild.plethora.net> Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 15:01:41 -0700 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <200102251559.f1PFx2627103@guild.plethora.net> Peter Seebach writes: : In message <3A98EE37.7B0B6CE0@newsguy.com>, "Daniel C. Sobral" writes: : >OTOH, the *only* way to get non-overcommit to FreeBSD is for someone who : >*wants* that feature to sit down and code it. It won't happen otherwise. : : So, out of idle curiousity: If, somewhere down the road, I know the kernel : well enough to attempt such a thing, what would the interest level be in : merging such a feature? Assuming that it doesn't break anything, that it doesn't introduce a severe performance penalty and works, there would be interest. There are times that this is a desirable feature. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message