On 12/23/06, Richard L. Hamilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The Linux overcommit approach is evil anyway, because it's not deterministic enough in its consequences. What _should_ happen is that the fork(), brk()/sbrk(), private mmap() of /dev/zero, etc fails. Every effort should be made to avoid failing COWs and the like that constitute resource allocations for which the syscall has already returned successfully.
Not to mention that some developers take the overcommit feature for granted, use the regular fork without thinking and dont even check for malloc errors, that makes the app unreliable under os's other than linux nacho _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
