Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 6 Nov 2000 19:56:23 +0100 (CET) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: Looking for better VM |
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On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, Szabolcs Szakacsits wrote: > On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, Rik van Riel wrote: > > > but simply because > > it appears there has been amazingly little research on this > > subject and it's completely unknown which approach will work > > There has been lot of research, this is the reason most Unices support > both non-overcommit and overcommit memory handling default to > non-overcommit [think of reliability and high availability].
It's a shame you didn't take the trouble to actually go out and see that non-overcommit doesn't solve the "out of memory" deadlock problem.
[if you want an explanation, look in the archives, we've explained this a dozen times now]
regards,
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