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Date:      Wed, 14 Jul 1999 15:27:06 -0700
From:      Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
To:        Niall Smart <niall@pobox.com>
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:  <199907142227.PAA02757@lestat.nas.nasa.gov>

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On Wed, 14 Jul 1999 12:43:07 +0000 
 Niall Smart <niall@pobox.com> wrote:

 > Perhaps it could be an additional flag to mmap, in this way
 > people wishing to run an overcommited system could do so
 > but those writing programs which must not overcommit for
 > certain memory allocations could ensure they did not do so.

This has already been mentioned.  SVR4 has MAP_NORESERVE specifcally
for this purpose.

        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>



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