Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 05 Mar 2002 08:37:29 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] Arch option to touch newly allocated pages |
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Jeff Dike wrote: > hpa@zytor.com said: > >>This is not necessarily a bad thing, however. If the user hadn't set >>up enough swap, they're probably better off getting the error message >>early. >> > > This is not a situation in which a lack of swap or a lack of RAM is a problem. > > The problem is a tmpfs filling up. > > You think that UML refusing to run if it can't get every bit of memory it > might ever need is preferable to UML running fine in somewhat less memory? >
Actually, yes, esp. since the only case you have been able to bring up is one of the sysadmin being a moron.
-hpa
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