From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] plan 9 overcommits memory? From: erik quanstrom Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2007 09:33:01 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20070903053514.GB24296@bio.cse.psu.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: b5318040-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 >> would have to commit just for stacks. With 2,000 processes, that >> would rise to 32GB just for stacks. > > With 4GB RAM, wouldn't you allocate at least that much swap > no matter what? that's pretty expensive if you're booting from flash and not using a remote fileserver. 8GB flash is expensive, not to mention deadly slow. also, why should i have to have swap? i really don't want it. it introduces new failure modes and could introduce wide latency variations. linux called, it wants it's choppy, laggy ui back. - erik