Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 12:21:50 -0600 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org> To: Jason Mawdsley <jason@macadamian.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mmap/madvise Message-ID: <20011108122150.W89342@elvis.mu.org> In-Reply-To: <016501c16878$4c80d3c0$2a64a8c0@macadamian.com>; from jason@macadamian.com on Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 12:10:42PM -0500 References: <016501c16878$4c80d3c0$2a64a8c0@macadamian.com>
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* Jason Mawdsley <jason@macadamian.com> [011108 11:07] wrote:
> Hi hackers!
>
> I am looking for a way to reserve memory, without actually allocating the
> swap space.
>
> The FreeBSD man page for mmap doesn't mention MAP_NORESERVE, but it is in
> sys/mman.h.
>
> Is that flag implemented, and external?
>
> Or is their a better way to do this?
Just proceed normally, freebsd does overcommit such that you really
don't need to do anything special to get the results you desire.
--
-Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org]
'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology,"
start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.'
http://www.morons.org/rants/gpl-harmful.php3
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