From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 20 12:22:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from isbalham.ist.co.uk (isbalham.ist.co.uk [192.31.26.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75E7014F24 for ; Tue, 20 Jul 1999 12:22:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rb@gid.co.uk) Received: from gid.co.uk (uucp@localhost) by isbalham.ist.co.uk (8.9.2/8.8.7) with UUCP id UAA18557; Tue, 20 Jul 1999 20:21:01 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from rb@gid.co.uk) Received: from [194.32.164.2] by seagoon.gid.co.uk; Tue, 20 Jul 1999 20:15:18 +0100 (BST) X-Sender: rb@194.32.164.1 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <199907201754.KAA06018@apollo.backplane.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 20:15:17 +0000 To: Matthew Dillon From: Bob Bishop Subject: Re: RE: Overcommit and calloc() Cc: "Kelly Yancey" , , Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. -- Bob Bishop (0118) 977 4017 international code +44 118 rb@gid.co.uk fax (0118) 989 4254 between 0800 and 1800 UK To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message