On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, James Sutherland wrote:
>On Sun, 26 Mar 2000 15:38:16 +0200 (MET DST), you wrote:
>(snip)
>>It might actually be possible nowadays to provide backing space on disk for the
>>stacks of live processes.
>There is much more to memory usage than just stack size...
>
>>Nearly everyone will have 2GB spare for 256*8MB
>>of emergency stack space.
>"Nearly everyone"? I have seen production servers with a TOTAL of that
>amount of disk space...
>
>>That about takes care of everyones problems,
>>since not walking malloced memory when you get it to make sure its
>>there is the programmers decision.
>If you want non-overcommitted behaviour, you can just use gnumalloc
>and allocate your own stack at initialisation time (or just pre-expand
>it).
And the race condition that has been pointed out before causes both to
be unreliable.
Quotas are the best known way to handle the problem.
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Jesse I Pollard, II
Email: pollard@cats-chateau.net
Any opinions expressed are solely my own.
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