Messages in this thread | | | From | "David Luyer" <> | Subject | RE: vm philosophising | Date | Sat, 19 Jan 2002 15:49:02 +1100 |
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I wrote: > Alan Cox wrote: > > > There is another VM that has a property that people would like: > > > deterministically handling memory exhaustion. > > > Unfortunately, that VM > > > probably can't co-exist with over-commit and the > > > performance gains that > > > affords. > > > > It can definitely co-exist. Overcommit control is just a > > book keeping > > exercise on address space commits.
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and the comment I somehow missed putting on the end:
If you want to philosophise about VM strategies, think of overcommit as "ethernet" and precommit as "token ring".
David.
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