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From: Florian Weimer <Weimer@CERT.Uni-Stuttgart.DE>
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Subject: Re: Help-memory allocation
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vashwath@rediffmail.com (prashna) writes:

> Don't you think "commit on allocate" is better choice?

At least on UNIX systems with a few typical UNIX services, the
situations in which the system continues to run in commit-on-use mode
is a proper subset of the situations for commit-on-allocate mode.  So
commit-on-use is the better choice.