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Subject: Re: vm philosophising
To: davids@webmaster.com (David Schwartz)
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 21:39:29 +0000 (GMT)
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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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> On Fri, 18 Jan 2002 19:23:47 +0000 (GMT), Alan Cox wrote:
> 
> >Overcommit control is just a book keeping
> >exercise on address space commits.
> 
> 	A bookkeeping technique developed by Arthur Anderson.

Hardly, and for many workloads its actually a very good thing to do. Of
course there is always a small mostly theoretical risk of doing an Enron
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