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Date:      Wed, 14 Jul 1999 07:45:02 +0900 (JST)
From:      Noriyuki Soda <soda@sra.co.jp>
To:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
Cc:        Noriyuki Soda <soda@sra.co.jp>, Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>, "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.ORG>, 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) 
Message-ID:  <199907132245.HAA15198@srapc342.sra.co.jp>
In-Reply-To: <199907132229.PAA81360@apollo.backplane.com>
References:  <199907132127.OAA80947@apollo.backplane.com> <199907132139.GAA14890@srapc342.sra.co.jp> <199907132153.OAA81153@apollo.backplane.com> <199907132215.HAA15042@srapc342.sra.co.jp> <199907132229.PAA81360@apollo.backplane.com>

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>>>>> On Tue, 13 Jul 1999 15:29:37 -0700 (PDT),
	Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> said:

>     In the same manner any truely critical system server must handle the
>     resource management itself to deal with all sorts of problem situations,
>     including memory.  You do not need to build any of this control into the
>     kernel. 
	:
      [snip]
	:
>     To say that FreeBSD does not support a certain class of system because
>     it uses an overcommit model is not correct, because you can trivially
>     solve the problem by implementing your own management of memory rather
>     then use the UNIX libc builtins.

That's wrong.
The application might be killed by SIGKILL on current FreeBSD
implementation, when the system becomes swap shortage.
--
soda


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