Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:41:07 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: lyndon@orthanc.ab.ca Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Swap overcommit (was Re: Replacement for grep(1) (part 2)) Message-ID: <378D6663.E3493581@newsguy.com> References: <199907141833.MAA05320@orthanc.ab.ca>
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lyndon@orthanc.ab.ca wrote: > > What it so evil about having a reasonably intelligent malloc() that > tells the truth, and returns unused memory to the system? Overcommit > is for lazy programmers, plain and simple. At least the SGI documentation > about overcommit admits that (or at least, did at one time). Yes. So is high-level languages, as a matter of fact. True memory-conscious programmers will never use anything besides assembler. -- 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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