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From: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com>
To: musl@lists.openwall.com
Subject: Re: holywar: malloc() vs. OOM
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 21:43:43 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110725174343.GB4462@albatros> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110724221907.GL132@brightrain.aerifal.cx>

Rich,

On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 18:19 -0400, Rich Felker wrote:
> Any system without this guarantee is a TOY, nothing more. I'm aware
> that the default sucks,

I don't think the default sucks, it is just targeted to other programs.
Think about Java/Python programs, which request hundreds megabytes, but
using only tens of them.  Also daemons with fork() model being able to
handle hundreds/thousands connections actively using COW would not be
able to fully exploit COW potential.

-- 
Vasiliy


  reply	other threads:[~2011-07-25 17:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-24 10:33 Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-07-24 12:40 ` Rich Felker
2011-07-24 13:29   ` Szabolcs Nagy
2011-07-24 13:27     ` Rich Felker
2011-07-24 18:33       ` Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-07-24 22:24         ` Rich Felker
2011-07-24 18:25   ` Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-07-24 22:19     ` Rich Felker
2011-07-25 17:43       ` Vasiliy Kulikov [this message]
2011-07-25 19:21         ` Rich Felker
2011-07-24 12:44 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2011-07-24 12:53   ` Szabolcs Nagy

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