Messages in this thread | | | Date | 19 Mar 2000 19:27:22 +0100 | From | "Rask Ingemann Lambertsen" <> | Subject | Re: Overcommitable memory?? |
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Den 17-Mar-00 10:04:27 skrev James Sutherland følgende om "Re: Overcommitable memory??":
> Yes. There may be a few, specialist applications where you truly want/need > overcommit disabled (embedded apps, perhaps?) - but for the desktop/server > market, overcommit is almost essential.
Lost of non-Linux systems work fine without it. Do you actually have any numbers to back up your claims?
A programmer can waste quite a lot of time hunting for non-existant bugs to explain crashes caused by a kernel which can't keep count of its memory. Been there, done that.
Regards,
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