Hi!
> > Well why not to reserve memory for root usage only, as this is done with
> > space on the root file system ?
>
> That means no overcommitment of memory. It's a solution, but you'll need
> _huge_ swapspaces just for making sure each time emacs spawns an ls the
> space for the 4 500Kb files it has open is available.
Is not vfork() solution to this particular problem?
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