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Date: Sun,  2 Sep 2007 18:47:17 -0700
From: "ron minnich" <rminnich@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] plan 9 overcommits memory?
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but most people can live with the overcommit, as witness the fact that
most of us do and never know it.

If you can't live with overcommit, maybe you need a wrapper that:
sets up to catch the note (I am assuming here that you get one; do you?)
malloc
zero memory you malloc'ed (which will get the pages in)
die reasonably if you get the note

Would that work?

ron