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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!mvb.saic.com!MathWorks.Com!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!xlink.net!subnet.sub.net!flatlin!pilhuhn!not-4-mail From: hwr@pilhuhn.sub.org (Heiko W.Rupp) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Subject: Re: Notes on the *new* FreeBSD V1.1 VM system Date: 3 Mar 1994 12:35:15 +0100 Organization: The Home Of The Pilhuhn Lines: 14 Message-ID: <2l4i1j$iiv@pilhuhn.pilhuhn.sub.org> References: <CLutBp.4K9@flatlin.ka.sub.org> <RA0Jn4G.dysonj@delphi.com> <2kudpoINNbhd@CS.UTK.EDU> <1994Mar1.132637.58107@ans.net> <2l1gt9INNc23@CS.UTK.EDU> NNTP-Posting-Host: pilhuhn moore@cs.utk.edu (Keith Moore) writes: >Depends on what you mean by usable. If you don't generate a failure >when someone asks for memory, then some random app gets nuked -- in my I think these masses of memory (provided by backing store) let many programers get lazy so they don't chec the return code of their memory allocations - if code would be written more carrefully, then one had less problems with having not enough memory as thoses applications which request it normally should know with memory shortage. -- Heiko W.Rupp Gerwigstr.5 D-76131 Karlsruhe +49 721 9661521 "The basic notion underlying USENET is the flame." -- Chuq Von Rospach