From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 13 14:23:21 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from sraigw.sra.co.jp (sraigw.sra.co.jp [202.32.10.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51E2F14DD2; Tue, 13 Jul 1999 14:23:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from soda@sra.co.jp) Received: from sranhf.sra.co.jp (sranhf [133.137.28.3]) by sraigw.sra.co.jp (8.8.7/3.7W-sraigw) with ESMTP id GAA23232; Wed, 14 Jul 1999 06:22:50 +0900 (JST) Received: from srapc342.sra.co.jp (srapc342 [133.137.28.111]) by sranhf.sra.co.jp (8.8.7/3.6Wbeta7-srambox) with ESMTP id GAA04776; Wed, 14 Jul 1999 06:22:48 +0900 (JST) Received: (from soda@localhost) by srapc342.sra.co.jp (8.8.8/3.4W-sra) id GAA14829; Wed, 14 Jul 1999 06:22:49 +0900 (JST) Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 06:22:49 +0900 (JST) Message-Id: <199907132122.GAA14829@srapc342.sra.co.jp> From: Noriyuki Soda To: Matthew Dillon Cc: Noriyuki Soda , Jason Thorpe , "Brian F. Feldman" , bright@rush.net, dcs@newsguy.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, jon@oaktree.co.uk, tech-userlevel@netbsd.org Subject: Re: Replacement for grep(1) (part 2) In-Reply-To: <199907132116.OAA80834@apollo.backplane.com> References: <199907131753.KAA22111@lestat.nas.nasa.gov> <199907131813.LAA79534@apollo.backplane.com> <199907132107.GAA14750@srapc342.sra.co.jp> <199907132116.OAA80834@apollo.backplane.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>> On Tue, 13 Jul 1999 14:16:54 -0700 (PDT), Matthew Dillon said: > > Unlike 4.4BSD derived VM, Solaris VM has a way to reserve backing store. > Secondly, for such a server to fail to run is just as bad as if > the system were to run out of swap. > IRIX has a swap reservation flag too, a left-over from the SysV days. > It is a totally useless flag. That's wrong. On such systems, critical server has a chance to save it's data to filesystem. On 4.4BSD derived systems, it cannot be guaranteed. -- soda To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message