Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 16:10:46 -0700 From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, tech-userlevel@netbsd.org Subject: Re: Replacement for grep(1) (part 2) Message-ID: <199907132310.QAA25089@lestat.nas.nasa.gov>
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On Tue, 13 Jul 1999 15:44:40 -0700 (PDT)
Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> wrote:
> So far nobody has been able to justify any good reasons for adding it
> to the system. I'm sorry, but just throwing out worst-case theories
> is not a good justification, nor is throwing embedded systems into the
> fray - because those already have to control memory fairly tightly
> and there are plenty of ways of doing that without having to do
> in-kernel reservation. Throwing generic 'critical servers' into the
> fray also isn't appropriate, because any server that is that critical
> also implements its own memory alloction management. It has to in
> order to guarentee performance and performance will degrade before
> one runs out of memory.
Well, all I can say is:
I'm sure glad you don't have any influence over the code
base I run.
-- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
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