Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 06:22:49 +0900 (JST) From: Noriyuki Soda <soda@sra.co.jp> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: Noriyuki Soda <soda@sra.co.jp>, Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>, "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.ORG>, bright@rush.net, dcs@newsguy.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, jon@oaktree.co.uk, tech-userlevel@netbsd.org Subject: Re: Replacement for grep(1) (part 2) Message-ID: <199907132122.GAA14829@srapc342.sra.co.jp> In-Reply-To: <199907132116.OAA80834@apollo.backplane.com> References: <199907131753.KAA22111@lestat.nas.nasa.gov> <199907131813.LAA79534@apollo.backplane.com> <199907132107.GAA14750@srapc342.sra.co.jp> <199907132116.OAA80834@apollo.backplane.com>
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>>>>> On Tue, 13 Jul 1999 14:16:54 -0700 (PDT), Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> said: > > Unlike 4.4BSD derived VM, Solaris VM has a way to reserve backing store. > Secondly, for such a server to fail to run is just as bad as if > the system were to run out of swap. > IRIX has a swap reservation flag too, a left-over from the SysV days. > It is a totally useless flag. That's wrong. On such systems, critical server has a chance to save it's data to filesystem. On 4.4BSD derived systems, it cannot be guaranteed. -- soda To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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