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[[!tag open_issue_gnumach open_issue_hurd open_issue_viengoos]]

[[microkernel/Mach]] interfaces do not allow for proper resource accounting,
when a server allocates resources on behalf of a client.

Mach can't do a good job at resource management, as it doesn't have enough
information how resources are used: which data is important and which is
discardable, for example.

These issues are what Neal Walfield is working on with his new kernel
[[microkernel/viengoos]].


# Examples

  * [[configure max command line length]]

  * [[zalloc_panics]]