Re: Question on the current behaviour of malloc () on Linux

• To: "linux-os (Dick Johnson)" <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: Question on the current behaviour of malloc () on Linux
• From: Jesper Juhl <[email protected]>
• Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 20:00:43 +0100
• Cc: Jie Zhang <[email protected]>, Linux kernel <[email protected]>, [email protected]
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On 12/21/05, linux-os (Dick Johnson) <[email protected]> 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]

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