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From: "David L. Parsley" <parsley@linuxjedi.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>, Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>,
	Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>, Ben LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>,
	Richard Jerrrell <jerrell@missioncriticallinux.com>,
	Stephen Tweedie <sct@redhat.com>,
	arjanv@redhat.com, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] swap_state.c thinko
Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2001 16:54:33 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3AD22189.DD5B9657@linuxjedi.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.31.0104091316500.9383-100000@penguin.transmeta.com>

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
> >
> > Given that strict address space management is not that hard would you
> > accept patches to allow optional non-overcommit in 2.5
> 
> I really doubt anybody wants to use a truly non-overcommit system.

Eh, how about embedded developers.  Like, say, Transmeta. ;-)  Things
get real ugly when my X terminal runs out of RAM - I gotta think it
would be better for mallocs to just fail in userspace.

regards,
	David

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  reply	other threads:[~2001-04-09 20:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-04-05 15:56 Ben LaHaise
2001-04-05 16:05 ` Rik van Riel
2001-04-05 17:11   ` Ben LaHaise
2001-04-05 23:40     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-04-06  0:32     ` Linus Torvalds
2001-04-06 16:31       ` Hugh Dickins
2001-04-06 17:21         ` Linus Torvalds
2001-04-06 18:23           ` Hugh Dickins
2001-04-06 18:57             ` Linus Torvalds
2001-04-06 19:06               ` Rik van Riel
2001-04-06 18:47           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-04-06 18:37             ` Hugh Dickins
2001-04-06 19:09               ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-04-06 18:53                 ` Hugh Dickins
2001-04-06 19:14                 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-04-06 19:03                   ` Hugh Dickins
2001-04-06 20:03                     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-04-06 19:12               ` Richard Jerrell
2001-04-06 19:52               ` Linus Torvalds
2001-04-06 20:22                 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-04-06 21:04                   ` Rik van Riel
2001-04-07  1:27                     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-04-09 18:16                   ` Alan Cox
2001-04-09 18:45                     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-04-09 20:32                     ` Linus Torvalds
2001-04-09 20:54                       ` David L. Parsley [this message]
2001-04-10 21:07                       ` James Antill
2001-04-10 22:20                         ` Jeff Garzik
2001-04-06 20:48                 ` Hugh Dickins
2001-04-05 17:21 ` Hugh Dickins
2001-04-05 21:39   ` Richard Jerrell
2001-04-06 20:20 Bulent Abali
2001-04-06 20:33 ` Jeff Garzik

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