> I guess we could build a system which does keep track of
> everything, but I don't think many people will want to use
> it. Imagine needing 3 MB of swap for every apache child
> being forked ... (ditto for mysql, sendmail, ...)
Actually we have a model for doing it. The bean counter stuff could be
extended that way. There are environments where you care about total
predictability of memory usage - not all of them big boxes
'Damn out of memory' is not the thing you want to hear over the aircraft
intercom at 35,000 feet
Alan
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