Re: vm philosophising

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Fri, 18 Jan 2002 19:23:47 +0000 (GMT)

> 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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