From: Florian Weimer <someone@deneb.cygnus.argh.org>
Subject: Re: Y21C Bug
Date: 2000/02/04
Date: 2000-02-04T21:15:11+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87hffok6u9.fsf@deneb.cygnus.argh.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: wcc7lgkrd3s.fsf@world.std.com
Robert A Duff <bobduff@world.std.com> writes:
> Florian Weimer <someone@deneb.cygnus.argh.org> writes:
>
> > Are you sure about Solaris? All memory you get seems to be backed by
> > physical RAM or swap space.
>
> But swap space is cheap.
That wasn't the point, I think. I was a bit slow with my response. ;)
We discussed using POSIX_Memory_Mapping.Map_Memory to create a huge
private mapping -- a few hundred megabytes in size, with copy-on-write
semantics, likely to exceed the the physical address space (both RAM
and swap) included. Linux is the only system which permits this,
because it is considered unsafe by quite a few people.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-02-04 0:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-01-02 0:00 Y21C Bug reason67
2000-01-02 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-01-03 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-01-03 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-01-04 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-01-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-01-05 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-01-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-01-06 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
2000-01-06 0:00 ` Georg Bauhaus
2000-01-06 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-01-06 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-01-06 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-01-05 0:00 ` Al Christians
2000-01-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-01-06 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-01-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-01-06 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-01-06 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-01-07 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
2000-01-07 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-01-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-02-04 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
2000-02-04 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-02-04 0:00 ` Florian Weimer [this message]
2000-01-11 0:00 ` Mats Weber
2000-01-11 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-01-12 0:00 ` Mats Weber
2000-01-12 0:00 ` Thierry Lelegard
2000-01-13 0:00 ` Mats Weber
2000-01-13 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-01-13 0:00 ` Thierry Lelegard
2000-01-13 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
[not found] ` <387dfb1e.cbbf14c7@mail.com>
2000-01-13 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-01-11 0:00 ` Mats Weber
2000-01-07 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-01-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-01-04 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-01-04 0:00 ` Samuel Tardieu
2000-01-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-01-04 0:00 ` Charles Hixson
2000-01-04 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
2000-01-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-01-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-01-05 0:00 ` Y21C Bug :-) Charles Hixson
2000-01-06 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-01-07 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
2000-01-07 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-01-03 0:00 ` Y21C Bug Jeff Creem
2000-01-03 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
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