Subject: Re: Swap overcommit
To: Danny Thomas <D.Thomas@vthrc.uq.edu.au>
From: Daniel C. Sobral <dcs@newsguy.com>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 07/15/1999 23:40:09
Danny Thomas wrote:
> 
> >Killing the biggest is simple to implement and usually right.
> ... but some people don't want that policy, at least on some of their
> systems. Does FreeBSD offer alternatives? Is so, they've been conspicuously
> absent from discussion, which might have taken things into a more
> productive vein. What do other over-committing systems offer?

Absent, eh? FreeBSD offers soft and hard limits on resources.

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