From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751160AbVLUTAp (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Dec 2005 14:00:45 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751193AbVLUTAp (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Dec 2005 14:00:45 -0500 Received: from zproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.162.196]:30125 "EHLO zproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751160AbVLUTAo convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Dec 2005 14:00:44 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=om+ioDbA7WKKWM92RiwRaRade6NpyG300ObOryLJiz31xbN082zAsh9YE4jyGJSkClLEYfWsV3ERWVmeMXQaa1KjUreGUk4Oj9zvzZk6k2X7qrbohy1quUTjZwQESNndXPMdSU5FhA+O9HCKiTh4DB5YB/MICeN/DdttTP8OIUU= Message-ID: <9a8748490512211100m1d360d7et437ad7da9699ff1d@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 20:00:43 +0100 From: Jesper Juhl To: "linux-os (Dick Johnson)" Subject: Re: Question on the current behaviour of malloc () on Linux Cc: Jie Zhang , Linux kernel , lars.friedrich@wago.com In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Disposition: inline References: <6f48278f0512210936y25169c37t9fb7eb13fef3a97d@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 12/21/05, linux-os (Dick Johnson) 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 Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain text mails only, please http://www.expita.com/nomime.html