On Sat, Apr 07, 2001 at 06:33:00PM +0200, Jaromír Dolecek wrote:

 > I believe the right thing here is to allocate the necessary memory
 > space in pipe(2) and later only reallocate if needed for bigpipes
 > (if possible to do so).  Note the memory is not wired, so no physical
 > memory is wasted, "just" kernel virtual memory space.  Typically,

Wasting "just" KVA space isn't a very nice thing, either.  Some CPUs
don't have a lot to spare.

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