Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 15:27:06 -0700 From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov> To: Niall Smart <niall@pobox.com> Cc: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, tech-userlevel@netbsd.org Subject: Re: Replacement for grep(1) (part 2) Message-ID: <199907142227.PAA02757@lestat.nas.nasa.gov>
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On Wed, 14 Jul 1999 12:43:07 +0000
Niall Smart <niall@pobox.com> wrote:
> Perhaps it could be an additional flag to mmap, in this way
> people wishing to run an overcommited system could do so
> but those writing programs which must not overcommit for
> certain memory allocations could ensure they did not do so.
This has already been mentioned. SVR4 has MAP_NORESERVE specifcally
for this purpose.
-- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
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