Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 01:52:11 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov> Cc: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, tech-userlevel@netbsd.org Subject: Re: Replacement for grep(1) (part 2) Message-ID: <378CC03B.3840B177@newsguy.com> References: <199907132230.PAA24729@lestat.nas.nasa.gov>
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Jason Thorpe wrote: > > > There is a lot of hidden 'potential' VM that you haven't considered. > > For example, if the resource limit for a process's stack is 8MB, then > > the process can potentially allocate 8MB of stack even though it may > > actually only allocate 32K of stack. When a process forks, the child > > ...um, so, make the code that deals with faulting in the stack a bit smarter. Uh? Like what? Like overcommitting, for instance? The beauty of overcommitting is that either you do it or you don't. :-) -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "Would you like to go out with me?" "I'd love to." "Oh, well, n... err... would you?... ahh... huh... what do I do next?" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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