04.01.08 _at_ 23:36 Tim Kientzle wrote: > Vadim Goncharov wrote: >> ... related "bug", in that of malloc overcommit,... > > malloc overcommit is not a bug; it's an important > feature for many applications, for the same > reasons that sparse files are an important feature. > (Many applications can optimize performance by > using an addressable region much larger than the > actual data they need to store.) What applications? How do they use this "feature"? > If you really need a 4G block of memory, mmap() > it to a file on disk. That's not a solution for end-user. Why just not have space reserving, as other operating systems can guarantee to their applications that stable availability of memory? -- WBR, Vadim GoncharovReceived on Fri Jan 04 2008 - 17:32:41 UTC
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