Re: [Boost-users] shared memory overhead

From: Jason Sachs (jmsachs_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-05-30 15:43:21

>Another thing that just occurred to me: allocate huge SHM segment but
>don't commit it immediately; let the os allocate the swap on-demand.
>Now, when you run out of swap, the OS should signal the condition
>somehow (structured exception handling? something else?).  You can
>catch the condition and take appropriate action, whatever that might be.

See ticket #1975: http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/1975