Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 15:53:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: Noriyuki Soda <soda@sra.co.jp> Cc: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>, "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.ORG>, bright@rush.net, dcs@newsguy.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, jon@oaktree.co.uk, tech-userlevel@netbsd.org Subject: Re: Replacement for grep(1) (part 2) Message-ID: <199907132253.PAA81615@apollo.backplane.com> References: <199907132127.OAA80947@apollo.backplane.com> <199907132139.GAA14890@srapc342.sra.co.jp> <199907132153.OAA81153@apollo.backplane.com> <199907132215.HAA15042@srapc342.sra.co.jp> <199907132229.PAA81360@apollo.backplane.com> <199907132245.HAA15198@srapc342.sra.co.jp>
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:> kernel.
: :
: [snip]
: :
:> To say that FreeBSD does not support a certain class of system because
:> it uses an overcommit model is not correct, because you can trivially
:> solve the problem by implementing your own management of memory rather
:> then use the UNIX libc builtins.
:
:That's wrong.
:The application might be killed by SIGKILL on current FreeBSD
:implementation, when the system becomes swap shortage.
:--
:soda
... a situation which will never occur if you are managing the memory
through your own custom library. Therefore not relevant.
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
<dillon@backplane.com>
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