From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jul 14 11:42:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from janus.syracuse.net (janus.syracuse.net [205.232.47.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB3AD14CC0 for ; Wed, 14 Jul 1999 11:42:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from green@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (green@localhost) by janus.syracuse.net (8.9.2/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA13017; Wed, 14 Jul 1999 14:41:13 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: janus.syracuse.net: green owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0400 (EDT) From: "Brian F. Feldman" X-Sender: green@janus.syracuse.net To: lyndon@orthanc.ab.ca Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Swap overcommit (was Re: Replacement for grep(1) (part 2)) In-Reply-To: <199907141833.MAA05320@orthanc.ab.ca> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG You don't seem to understand that a runaway process/one designed just to take up memory will be much more active than your little IMAP servers, and be the one killed, if this scheme were used. Brian Fundakowski Feldman _ __ ___ ____ ___ ___ ___ green@FreeBSD.org _ __ ___ | _ ) __| \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! _ __ | _ \._ \ |) | http://www.FreeBSD.org/ _ |___/___/___/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message