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Subject: Re: FreeBSDDEATH.c.txt (mmap dirty page no check bug)
From: Valentin Nechayev (netchlucky.net)
Date: Wed Jun 07 2000 - 06:44:21 CDT

 Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 23:55:03, dillon wrote about "Re: FreeBSDDEATH.c.txt (mmap dirty page no check bug)":

> Maybe on your system it is, but try running a multi-user system that
> way and you will quickly find your /var/tmp filled up to the brim. Or,

Of course, of course.
It is general problem of any public-accessable resource.
Do you think you can really fix this world? Or do you try to emit /tmp
as philosophical category?

> MFS is a terrible idea for /tmp. Each page in an MFS filesystem eats
> *TWO* pages of physical memory (until swapped). This means that the

It is problem of one broken realization, isn't it? 

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NVA

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