Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 14:54:41 +0530 From: "Biju Susmer" <bee@wipinfo.soft.net> Cc: <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Probably bug with allocation memory in FreeBSD-3.2-RELEASE Message-ID: <008801bee892$5703f920$88291fac@wipro.tcpn.com> In-Reply-To: <199908170826.RAA70438@gizmo.internode.com.au>
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> > 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? -biju To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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