Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 00:17:12 +0930 (CST) From: Mark Newton <newton@internode.com.au> To: bee@wipinfo.soft.net Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Probably bug with allocation memory in FreeBSD-3.2-RELEASE Message-ID: <199908171447.AAA71878@gizmo.internode.com.au> In-Reply-To: <008801bee892$5703f920$88291fac@wipro.tcpn.com> from "Biju Susmer" at Aug 17, 99 02:54:41 pm
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Biju Susmer wrote: > > Well, yeah, that's becuase you're running it out of swap by trying to > > allocate a gigabyte of memory. > > but this is done in steps of 1MB. Once it reaches out of memory, malloc > should return NULL. Since there is no checking for NULL in this code, > it should hit a signal, isn't it? Why that is not happening? We only had this thread a week ago. Please consult the archives. - mark ---- Mark Newton Email: newton@internode.com.au (W) Network Engineer Email: newton@atdot.dotat.org (H) Internode Systems Pty Ltd Desk: +61-8-82232999 "Network Man" - Anagram of "Mark Newton" Mobile: +61-416-202-223 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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