David Whysong wrote:
>
> On 13 Mar 2000, david parsons wrote:
> >David Whysong <dwhysong@physics.ucsb.edu> wrote:
> >>
> >>Ok, so my big gravitational simulation gets NULL from malloc and decides
> >>to save it's work and exit. Uh-oh, time to demand-load a page of
> >>executable code that had been discarded,
> >
> > Discarded? But that would be overcommit -- if your system is running
> > without overcommit, there has to be a space for that page someplace
> > in core, and it shouldn't be blown away, no matter how frantically
> > the kernel may want to use that page for something else.
>
> ...yes, and you conveniently cut my next paragraph that shows the problems
> in the case where you do not overcommit application memory...
Those problems are already well known; why repeat them?
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david parsons \bi/ I like overcommit, but I'm beginning to think it leads
\/ to sloppy programming.
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