From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 13 15:53:52 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from apollo.backplane.com (apollo.backplane.com [209.157.86.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0E8114E0B; Tue, 13 Jul 1999 15:53:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon@apollo.backplane.com) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by apollo.backplane.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id PAA81615; Tue, 13 Jul 1999 15:53:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 15:53:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Dillon Message-Id: <199907132253.PAA81615@apollo.backplane.com> To: Noriyuki Soda Cc: 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) 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> <199907132245.HAA15198@srapc342.sra.co.jp> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG :> 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 ... a situation which will never occur if you are managing the memory through your own custom library. Therefore not relevant. -Matt Matthew Dillon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message