>>>>> On Tue, 13 Jul 1999 15:29:37 -0700 (PDT),
	Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> said:

>     In the same manner any truely critical system server must handle the
>     resource management itself to deal with all sorts of problem situations,
>     including memory.  You do not need to build any of this control into the
>     kernel. 
	:
      [snip]
	:
>     To say that FreeBSD does not support a certain class of system because
>     it uses an overcommit model is not correct, because you can trivially
>     solve the problem by implementing your own management of memory rather
>     then use the UNIX libc builtins.

That's wrong.
The application might be killed by SIGKILL on current FreeBSD
implementation, when the system becomes swap shortage.
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