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Date:      Thu, 15 Jul 1999 01:41:19 +0900
From:      "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>
To:        "Chris G. Demetriou" <cgd@netbsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, tech-userlevel@netbsd.org
Subject:   Re: Replacement for grep(1) (part 2)
Message-ID:  <378CBDAF.1186986A@newsguy.com>
References:  <199907131753.KAA22111@lestat.nas.nasa.gov> <199907131813.LAA79534@apollo.backplane.com> <873dys1hfw.fsf@redmail.redback.com>

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"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

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