"Peter T. Breuer" <ptb@it.uc3m.es> said:
> "A month of sundays ago Horst von Brand wrote:"
> > Real easy on the mythical simulation which was running for 3 weeks and now
> > doesn't get the memory it needs due to "don't overcommit" policies. Very
> > nice on the user trying to compile a huge program. Etc. Writing programs so
> > they can get away with less memory if space is tight is _extremely_ hard in
> > the general case. I asked a while back for a real example of a program
> You have to checkpoint the data to disk every so often. Be prepared to
> restart from there.
That does protect the work done against the program being killed, it
doesn't return memory that isn't in use.
> > doing so, no answers (as I expected).
Still waiting.
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