On Tue, 13 Jul 1999 14:14:52 -0700 (PDT) 
 Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> wrote:

 >     If you don't have the disk necessary for a standard overcommit model to
 >     work, you definitely do not have the disk necessary for a non-overcommit 
 >     model to work.

You obviously didn't pay attention to Chris's posting, nor apparently did
you see th "embedded" in my posting.

Who said anything about even having disks to swap to?  I just want the
kernel to tell me when there aren't any more backing store resources
(including *PHYSICAL PAGES*) for the memory allocation I just requested
from userspace.  That way, my correctly written program can take appropriate
action (like, say, invoke its type-stable memory pool garbage collector, and
try again).

Right now, BSD doesn't do this, and that makes creating a truly reliable
system *very hard*.

        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>