>>>>> On Tue, 13 Jul 1999 14:16:54 -0700 (PDT),
Matthew Dillon <dil...@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.
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