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Date:      Tue, 20 Jul 1999 20:15:17 +0000
From:      Bob Bishop <rb@gid.co.uk>
To:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
Cc:        "Kelly Yancey" <kbyanc@alcnet.com>, <crandall@matchlogic.com>, <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: RE: Overcommit and calloc()
Message-ID:  <l0302092db3ba88f98f68@[194.32.164.2]>
In-Reply-To: <199907201754.KAA06018@apollo.backplane.com>
References:  <l0302092bb3ba6fac9d72@[194.32.164.2]>

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Hi again,

At 10:54 am -0700 20/7/99, Matthew Dillon wrote:
[...]
>    It should also be noted that unless your system is entirely cpu-bound,
>    there is no cost to the kernel to zero memory because it pre-zero's
>    pages in its idle loop.

Thanks to distributed.net, SETI. et al, idle cycles are fast going out of
fashion.


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