From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jul 14 21:54:54 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 27E2A15515 for ; Wed, 14 Jul 1999 21:54:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) id NAA29022; Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:53:58 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <378D6663.E3493581@newsguy.com> Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:41:07 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lyndon@orthanc.ab.ca Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Swap overcommit (was Re: Replacement for grep(1) (part 2)) References: <199907141833.MAA05320@orthanc.ab.ca> 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 lyndon@orthanc.ab.ca wrote: > > What it so evil about having a reasonably intelligent malloc() that > tells the truth, and returns unused memory to the system? Overcommit > is for lazy programmers, plain and simple. At least the SGI documentation > about overcommit admits that (or at least, did at one time). Yes. So is high-level languages, as a matter of fact. True memory-conscious programmers will never use anything besides assembler. -- 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