** Reply to message from Andrew Lentvorski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Fri, 02 May
2008 13:53:12 -0700

> This kind of stuff is the reason I avoid Linux when I want reliability.

so what do you use?  I was searching for what you were mentioning and
on a Solaris list I see someone asking about an easier way than touching
all of malloc'ed memory because it's not allocated on malloc. So it seems
Solaris does/did this as well as Linux.

BTW, one mention was to "touch" just on block in the memory saying that
was enough and another mentioned using mlock because that forces allocation.

> And the Linux community takes its cue from Linus and ignores things that 
> are 1% fails if they get in the way of "performance" (see async writes 
> to disk as default for another example).

are these kinds of thing kept out of the kernel all together or available with
compiling options? I know you can't please everyone all the time but there
are some things where a compile option keeps those special case people
happy.

Doug


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