From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jul 14 15:29:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from lestat.nas.nasa.gov (lestat.nas.nasa.gov [129.99.50.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76BEE15533 for ; Wed, 14 Jul 1999 15:29:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from thorpej@lestat.nas.nasa.gov) Received: from lestat (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lestat.nas.nasa.gov (8.8.8/8.6.12) with ESMTP id PAA02809; Wed, 14 Jul 1999 15:29:04 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199907142229.PAA02809@lestat.nas.nasa.gov> To: "Daniel C. Sobral" Cc: Matthew Dillon , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, tech-userlevel@netbsd.org Subject: Re: Replacement for grep(1) (part 2) Reply-To: Jason Thorpe From: Jason Thorpe Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 15:29:04 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 15 Jul 1999 01:52:11 +0900 "Daniel C. Sobral" wrote: > > ...um, so, make the code that deals with faulting in the stack a bit smarter. > > Uh? Like what? Like overcommitting, for instance? The beauty of > overcommitting is that either you do it or you don't. :-) One option is to special-case overcommit the stack. Another is to set the default stack limits to something more reasonable on a system where overcommit is disabled. -- Jason R. Thorpe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message