Re: vm philosophising

Alan Cox
2002-01-18T21:27:41Z

> 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