Re: RE: Overcommit and calloc()

[Bob Bishop]

Hi again,

At 10:54 am -0700 20/7/99, Matthew Dillon wrote:
[...]
>    It should also be noted that unless your system is entirely cpu-bound,
>    there is no cost to the kernel to zero memory because it pre-zero's
>    pages in its idle loop.

Thanks to distributed.net, SETI. et al, idle cycles are fast going out of
fashion.


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