Re: Out Of Memory in v. 2.1

Olivier Galibert (galibert@pobox.com)
Mon, 5 Oct 1998 03:15:40 +0200

On Sun, Oct 04, 1998 at 08:40:19PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> A first step would probably be to provide logical swap as Irix does: the
> overcommitment can be limited to some number of MBs (represented by a
> phyisically non-existant logical swap partition).

Irix' virtual swap is a tremendous pain is the ass. The only result
of its existence is that you put it way up (say, terabytes[1]) so that
you never ever hear of it again.

OG.

[1] 64bits system

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