[haiku-commits] Re: r36651 - in haiku/trunk: headers/private/kernel/vm src/system/kernel/vm

  • From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-commits@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 06 May 2010 18:07:56 +0200

ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx wrote:
>   We should probably mark writable copies over-committing, since the 
> usual
>   case is fork() + exec() where the child normally doesn't need more 
> than a
>   few pages until calling exec(). That would significantly reduce the 
> memory
>   requirement for jamming the Haiku tree.

Makes sense to me (on second thought ;-)).

Bye,
   Axel.


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