From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jul 14 10:11:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1B6B153EE for ; Wed, 14 Jul 1999 10:11:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) id CAA16965; Thu, 15 Jul 1999 02:10:28 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <378CBDAF.1186986A@newsguy.com> Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 01:41:19 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Chris G. Demetriou" Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, tech-userlevel@netbsd.org Subject: Re: Replacement for grep(1) (part 2) References: <199907131753.KAA22111@lestat.nas.nasa.gov> <199907131813.LAA79534@apollo.backplane.com> <873dys1hfw.fsf@redmail.redback.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Chris G. Demetriou" wrote: > ... > Overcommit avoidance may not be useful for your particular uses of > these UNIX-like systems. However, if you think that it's not useful > to anybody who uses them (or that people who think it's useful are > deluding themselves 8-), then you're sorely mistaken and have a > ... very wrong-headed attitude about why people find such features > useful. Have you actually tried a system which can work in either overcommit and non-overcommit modes? What it comes down to is that if you have enough memory to run in non-overcommit, you have enough memory to run in overcommit. Setting limits is complex, but it is no more complex than correctly sizing the memory in a non-overcommit system (this is demonstrable). -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "Would you like to go out with me?" "I'd love to." "Oh, well, n... err... would you?... ahh... huh... what do I do next?" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message