Re: Small problem with malloc() tested on 2.1.117/115 (and maybe affecting others)

Marc SCHAEFER (schaefer@alphanet.ch)
Sun, 23 Aug 1998 12:29:04 +0200 (MEST)


On Sun, 23 Aug 1998, Division by Zero wrote:

> It is disabled! And it'll still overcommit memory???
> (/proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory contains 0)

Setting to 0 mainly means, AFAIK, that physical memory + swap
must be enough. It still might be slow. Now, if you still allocate
2 GB and have only 64 phys + 100 swap, then there is a bug maybe.

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