Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 14:02:28 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: alk@pobox.com Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: swap-related problems Message-ID: <371572E4.D9C64C93@newsguy.com> References: <14100.61923.427423.153188@avalon.east>
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Anthony Kimball wrote: > > : > All I want is that a program gets NULL from malloc if there is no memory > : > available. I find that to be a very fundamental thing about malloc. > > : Do you have a solution? We don't. > > Make an sbrk variant which will pre-allocate backing store. > setenv MALLOC_PREALLOCATE As soon as this application grabs all the memory, the next thing to request more memory (not a malloc!) will cause the application to be killed (largest application criteria). Change the criteria, and *another* application gets killed. Any application getting killed is a problem, you'll find very fast. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "nothing better than the ability to perform cunning linguistics" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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