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Date:      Sat, 16 May 1998 21:59:49 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
To:        eivind@yes.no (Eivind Eklund)
Cc:        wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/conf param.c src/sys/kern uipc_domain.c uipc_proto.c uipc_socket.c uipc_socket2.c uipc_usrreq.c src/sys/
Message-ID:  <199805162159.OAA13568@usr02.primenet.com>
In-Reply-To: <19980516200156.30364@follo.net> from "Eivind Eklund" at May 16, 98 08:01:56 pm

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> To get around that problem, I'd expand the VM space in the top half of
> the kernel ("somewhere suitable") when it looked like we were "close
> to" running out of space (ie, close to the maxsockets case), and
> probably start out with maxsockets somewhat smaller.  (There are, of
> course, a lot of opportunities for high-water/low-water mark magic
> around this).
> 
> Does it sound doable?

The protection you would gain is statistical; there would still be
failure races if you did it (consider a low memory condition; just
because you can expand the page mappings doesn't mean that you will
have pages available for them to point to).

This is why type stable memory is so annoying.  8-).


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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