Dynamic system memory use

Daniel Joyce daniel.a.joyce at worldnet.att.net
Sat Feb 2 09:41:29 UTC 2002


> > So, you trade flexibility (you only need virtual memory resources to
> > sufficidnt for what you're actually going to use) for robustness (The
> > systems already promised that it has the memory, which is lying.)
>
> What you need to do is hook up the page-fault handler to the order
> system...more disks for the base-RAID...
>
> > Both views are widely held, sometimes different kernel developers of
> > the same kernel. For some kernels, its a runtime option.
>
> Arguing on this list isn't going the change the fact that Mach, and with
> it Darwin/OS-X works like this.
>
> Marcel

	Ah yes then.

	Linux does overcommit too.

	Daniel Joyce



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