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From: "David Luyer" <david_luyer@pacific.net.au>
To: "'Oliver Xymoron'" <oxymoron@waste.org>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: vm philosophising
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2002 15:49:02 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <007601c1a0a4$9ddc5d70$46943ecb@pacific.net.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 

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.

[...]

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.


             reply	other threads:[~2002-01-19  4:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-01-19  4:49 David Luyer [this message]
2002-01-19  5:46 ` David Weinehall
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-01-18  4:30 Rik spreading bullshit about VM Bosko Radivojevic
2002-01-18  4:36 ` vm philosophising Rik van Riel
2002-01-18  4:58   ` Matthew Johnson
2002-01-18  5:12     ` Rik van Riel
2002-01-18  5:18     ` Ryan Cumming
2002-01-18  5:43       ` Matthew Johnson
2002-01-21 17:55         ` Bill Davidsen
2002-01-18  6:05       ` Matthew Johnson
2002-01-18 14:42   ` Tommy Faasen
2002-01-18 15:52     ` listmail
2002-01-21 15:50     ` The Doctor What
2002-01-21 16:16       ` Mike Harrold
2002-01-18 15:55   ` Mr. Shannon Aldinger
2002-01-18 18:39   ` Oliver Xymoron
2002-01-18 19:23     ` Alan Cox
2002-01-18 20:17       ` David Schwartz
2002-01-18 21:39         ` Alan Cox
2002-01-19  4:42       ` David Luyer
2002-01-19 18:00         ` Rob Landley
2002-01-20  5:42         ` Stevie O

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