Re: Overcommitable memory??

From: Mike Castle (dalgoda@ix.netcom.com)
Date: Sat Mar 18 2000 - 11:34:11 EST


On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 10:52:55AM -0600, Jesse Pollard wrote:
> Just doing this does force the administrator to give a very large amount
> of swap space to the system. Currently, there is no way to tell fork not
> to make such reservations (but only sometimes...). If the desired sequence

vfork() ?

mrc

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