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Date:      Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:45:21 +0900
From:      "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>
To:        Michael Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, tech-userlevel@netbsd.org
Subject:   Re: Swap overcommit (was Re: Replacement for grep(1) (part 2))
Message-ID:  <378D6761.A10BF6F2@newsguy.com>
References:  <199907142001.QAA02130@pzero.sandelman.ottawa.on.ca>

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Michael Richardson wrote:
> 
>     Ben> Tell me, Mr. Nemeth, has this ever happened to you?  Have you ever
>     Ben> come *close*?
> 
>   Uh, since we don't run overcommit, the answer is specifically *NO*.

And what system do you run?

>   I have had it happen on other systems. (Solaris, AIX) It was very
> mystifying to diagnose. Sure, the systems were misconfigured for what we
> were trying to do, but if I wanted build a custom system for every
> application.... well... I'd be running NT.

I have to agree about the mystifying diagnose... Specially when they
*don't* page like hell.

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Daniel C. Sobral			(8-DCS)
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dcs@freebsd.org

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	"I'd love to."
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