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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!serv.hinet.net!spring.edu.tw!voyager.iii.org.tw!nctuccca.edu.tw!howland.reston.ans.net!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!zib-berlin.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Malloc in FreeBSD (Was: Re: Linux vs. FreeBSD) Date: 2 Jun 1996 21:27:55 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 17 Message-ID: <4ot10r$sv@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <3188C1E2.45AE@onramp.net> <4mr1pk$cdi@dyson.iquest.net> <4n0dhd$cff@agate.berkeley.edu> <3194622D.41C67EA6@ami-chan.res.cmu.edu> <31A52667.794BDF32@zeus.co.uk> <4o3ftc$4rc@zot.io.org> <31A5A8F6.15FB7483@zeus.co.uk> <31A5D0A8.59E2B600@zeus.co.uk> <DrxB6M.Iyn@kithrup.com> <31AC940B.236F@mts.se> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Martin Nisshagen <martin@mts.se> wrote: > Does FreeBSD use lazy allocation as default, and if so can I turn it off? FreeBSD does only know about lazy swap at all. Perhaps somebody should teach it eager swap as well. It doesn't entirely stall if swap space is low, but there's always a danger that the wrong process will be identified as the offender and killed. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)