Doug Rabson <[email protected]> wrote: > Overcommit can be used for many reasons. I use it to reserve a large > linear address space to mmap alpha i/o spaces to which allows an efficient > implementation of inx/outx in user mode: > > UID PID PPID CPU PRI NI VSZ RSS WCHAN STAT TT TIME COMMAND > 0 43655 43652 7 2 0 12616584 12456 select S ?? 1036:41.62 > /usr/X11R6/bin/X -auth /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/authdir/A:0-w43652 > > The X server is using 12G of address space..
This is not an argument for malloc() to overcommit by default, it is an argument for there to be a way of allocating address space with no swap reserved *when you specifically ask for it*. Of course I would not disagree with this. Cheers Jon -- \/ Jon Ribbens / [email protected] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [email protected] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
