> > Yuck. That's a complete abomination. What's the point of it? It's turning > > Paging Terry Lambert, Terry Lambert - do you read me? It's time for > your annual rant on the topic of memory overcommit. :-)
It's not overcommit so much as it is what happens to a process that gets a page fault when there are no available pages to 'fix up' the overcommit. AIX began overcommitting at one point but would kill -9 any process that page faulted when there were no available pages. AIX sysadmins universally hated this behavior and allocated HUGE swap files to avoid it. I assume FreeBSD does something more reasonable. Todd Whitesel toddpw @ best.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message