On Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 07:10:24AM -0500, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * Vladimir Dozen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010929 06:57] wrote: > > ehlo. > > > > (Sorry for long pre-history, I believe it is necessary.) > [snip] > > Comments? > > Wow! This is really awesome work you've done, perhaps you can put > the patch up on a URL someplace? If not mail it to me in private > and I can put it up for people to see. One thing though, I think > that this behaviour should be toggled via a sysctl, but I think I > can manage doing that for you. > > One other question, why not just set an option to make FreeBSD not > overcommit? I've always wanted the ability to turn off overcommit > for exactly the same reasons you do.
FWIW: Tru64 has had this capability since day one. You can select swap-overcommit mode by removing a symlink (/sbin/swapdefault -> /dev/foob) were /dev/foob is the primary swap partition. W/ -- | / o / /_ _ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte Arnhem, The Netherlands To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
