Messages in this thread | | | From | "David Schwartz" <> | Subject | RE: Overcommitable memory?? | Date | Fri, 24 Mar 2000 11:06:36 -0800 |
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> On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, David Schwartz wrote: > > > If there was a portable way to detect imminent resource > > exhaustion before malloc starts to fail, I'd happily use it. > > If there was a way to look into the future, I'm sure we'd > all happily use it :)
That's amusing, but surely the kernel knows when it's swapping.
One problem with making such a thing portable is there is no metric that exists in every kernel that gives this information. And, of course, swap being in use does not mean that the system is swapping in the sense that performance is suffering.
DS
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