Re: Setting memory allocators for library functions.

2001-02-28 Thread michael schuster
ou're out of swapable memory" to be practical (that's the way Solaris implements it). I haven't thought this out in detail, but I also imagine it easier to handle ENOMEM than SIGDANGER, because of the synchronous nature of the first versus the asynchronous nature of the second.

Re: Swap overcommit (was Re: Replacement for grep(1) (part 2))

1999-07-15 Thread Michael Schuster - TSC SunOS Germany
Hi everyone, I've been following this discussion almost from the beginning, and I have the feeling that we're not _really_ getting very far. There's good arguments for and against overcommit, depending on your point of view and your requirements. What I do see is a not-so-openly voiced consent th

Re: Swap overcommit (was Re: Replacement for grep(1) (part 2))

1999-07-14 Thread Michael Schuster - TSC SunOS Germany
Hi everyone, I've been following this discussion almost from the beginning, and I have the feeling that we're not _really_ getting very far. There's good arguments for and against overcommit, depending on your point of view and your requirements. What I do see is a not-so-openly voiced consent t