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#! rnews 2183 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!usenet.kornet.nm.kr!news.postech.ac.kr!news.kreonet.re.kr!bofh.dot!usenet.seri.re.kr!bofh.dot!news.cais.net!news.mathworks.com!news.kei.com!nntp.coast.net!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!Norway.EU.net!nntp.uio.no!nntp.uib.no!nntp-bergen.UNINETT.no!nntp-trd.UNINETT.no!newsfeed.sunet.se!news01.sunet.se!sunic!mn6.swip.net!mn5.swip.net!news From: Martin Nisshagen <martin@mts.se> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Malloc in FreeBSD (Was: Re: Linux vs. FreeBSD) Date: Tue, 04 Jun 1996 04:29:05 +0200 Organization: MTS Technology, Sweden Lines: 27 Message-ID: <31B39F71.1E24@mts.se> 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$4rc@zot.io.org> <31A5A8F6.15FB7483@zeus.co.uk> <31A5D0A8.59E2B600@zeus.co.uk> <DrxB6M.Iyn@kithrup.com> <31AC940B.236F@mts.se> <4ot10r$sv@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: dialup117-1-1.swipnet.se Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-User: ae3c2e151a3289f0cece4e86c3df4503 X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b4 (WinNT; I) J Wunsch wrote: > > FreeBSD does only know about lazy swap at all. Perhaps somebody > should teach it eager swap as well. Maybe it will cange in any future releases who comes after 2.1 (or 2.2)? > 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. I have always liked FreeBSD over others (like Linux) beacuse it always chooses going with stability in preference over performance. I must admit that I was a bit dissapointed to find that this isn't always the case. Does BSDI also do this lazy allocation? Anyone who knows of any non-commercial Unix who only backs with memory who is avaible? Best regards, m a r t i n n -- Martin Nisshagen martin@mts.se (MIME 1.0) "verdi + callas = MTS Technology, Sweden http://www.mts.se/martin 100% pleasure..."