Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 16:27:11 -0700 From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: Ted Faber <faber@ISI.EDU>, Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Replacement for grep(1) (part 2) Message-ID: <199907132327.QAA25268@lestat.nas.nasa.gov>
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On Tue, 13 Jul 1999 16:16:07 -0700
Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> wrote:
> Matt's point, which he's not making by virtue of talking too much, is
> that you can't make a "no overcommit" system behave like an "overcommit"
> system, and most people are used to the sort of things that the latter
> makes practical.
That's just silly. If people want a no-overcommit system, they have it,
and if they don't, they have that, too.
That's why you make it a switch. No, really, you *can* just make it
a switch.
-- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
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