Subject: Re: userid partitioned swap spaces.
To: Christoph Badura <bad@ora.de>
From: Erik E. Fair <fair@clock.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 12/17/1998 10:11:05 
At 9:25 -0800 12/17/98, Christoph Badura wrote:

>I think that is the wrong approach.  The system shouldn't overcommit VM
>except when the application *explicitly* requests it.

Ah! That's the right way. Among other things, if such an overcommit leads
to resource exhaustion, we know who to kill...

	Erik <fair@clock.org>