From: Jie Zhang <jzhang918@gmail.com>
To: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, lars.friedrich@wago.com
Subject: Re: Question on the current behaviour of malloc () on Linux
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 15:15:43 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6f48278f0512212315n24301308ia81fc8094fc93838@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9a8748490512211005u40ca4c7dv41044827544f97fa@mail.gmail.com>
On 12/22/05, Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/21/05, Jie Zhang <jzhang918@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I first asked this question on uClinux mailing list. My first question
> > is <http://mailman.uclinux.org/pipermail/uclinux-dev/2005-December/036042.html>.
> > Although I found this issue on uClinux, it's also can be demostrated
> > on Linux. This is a small program:
> >
> [snip memory hog]
> >
> > When I run it on my Linux notebook, it will be killed. I expect to see
> > it prints out "fail".
> >
>
> You are seeing the effects of Linux overcommitting memory.
>
[snip]
>
> For more information read Documentation/vm/overcommit-accounting ,
> Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt & Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
>
Thanks a lot! Your explaination is very detailed and easier to
understand than the doc for me.
Best Regards,
Jie
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-12-22 7:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-12-21 17:36 Question on the current behaviour of malloc () on Linux Jie Zhang
2005-12-21 17:39 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-12-21 18:05 ` Jesper Juhl
2005-12-21 18:07 ` Jesper Juhl
2005-12-22 7:15 ` Jie Zhang [this message]
2005-12-21 18:06 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2005-12-21 19:00 ` Jesper Juhl
2005-12-22 7:21 ` Jie Zhang
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