Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 26 Sep 2000 17:04:06 +0100 | From | "Stephen C. Tweedie" <> | Subject | Re: the new VMt |
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Hi,
On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 09:17:44AM -0600, yodaiken@fsmlabs.com wrote:
> Operating systems cannot make more memory appear by magic. > The question is really about the best strategy for dealing with low memory. In my > opinion, the OS should not try to out-think physical limitations. Instead, the OS > should take as little space as possible and provide the ability for user level > clever management of space. In a truly embedded system, there can easily be a user level > root process that watches memory usage and prevents DOS attacks -- if the OS provides > settable enforced quotas etc.
Agreed, absolutely. The beancounter is one approach to those quotas, and has the advantage of allowing per-user as well as per-process quotas.
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