On Mar 17, 2014, at 7:21 AM, Bob Friesenhahn <[email protected]> 
wrote:

> On Mon, 17 Mar 2014, Michael Schuster wrote:
> 
>> 
> 
> My continuing theory is that Illumos is much slower to expand virtual memory 
> (map fresh memory into the process) than Linux is.  Linux does not actually 
> give memory to a process until the address is accessed (modified) whereas 
> Solaris assures that the memory is allocated in advance.

Solaris/illumos does not allocate the memory until it is accessed.  

max



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