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Subject: Re: vm philosophising
To: oxymoron@waste.org (Oliver Xymoron)
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 19:23:47 +0000 (GMT)
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> There is another VM that has a property that people would like:
> deterministically handling memory exhaustion. Unfortunately, that VM
> probably can't co-exist with over-commit and the performance gains that
> affords.

It can definitely co-exist. Overcommit control is just a book keeping
exercise on address space commits.
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