From: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
To: "linux-os (Dick Johnson)" <linux-os@analogic.com>
Cc: Jie Zhang <jzhang918@gmail.com>,
Linux kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
lars.friedrich@wago.com
Subject: Re: Question on the current behaviour of malloc () on Linux
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 20:00:43 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9a8748490512211100m1d360d7et437ad7da9699ff1d@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0512211259090.12113@chaos.analogic.com>
On 12/21/05, linux-os (Dick Johnson) <linux-os@analogic.com> wrote:
[snip]
>
> To make your wishes come true execute:
> echo "1" >/proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory
s/"1"/"2"/
> ... as a super-user.
>
> That will make malloc() fail when there isn't any more virtual
> memory.
>
[snip]
--
Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-12-21 19:00 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
2005-12-21 18:06 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2005-12-21 19:00 ` Jesper Juhl [this message]
2005-12-22 7:21 ` Jie Zhang
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