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SubjectRe: Linux 2.2.15pre12
On Fri, 3 Mar 2000, Alan Cox wrote:

> If someone wrote the code then yes. Basically it comes down to ensuring
> that the total amount of address space is contained
>
> Doing it perfectly is hard - very hard and I've yet to see anyone get it
> right in the Unix world. Doing the general case is not so bad. Basically
> whenever you create/destroy/modify a VMA you must ensure that there is
> memory or swap for the VMA.
>

well i can't write the code. but maybe one of the VM gurus will keep
such a possibility in mind next time they're rewriting VM. :)

i'd really like this feature - for when you absolutely never ever can
risk VM deadlock and when the machine has plenty of physical RAM.

thanks for answering,

Paul Jakma.
paul@clubi.ie


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