Date: 12 Jul 1999 03:46:59 +0200 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> To: Jon Ribbens <jon@oaktree.co.uk> Cc: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, tech-userlevel@netbsd.org, tech@openbsd.org Subject: Re: Replacement for grep(1) (part 2) Message-ID: <xzpiu7qiqr0.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: Jon Ribbens's message of "Mon, 12 Jul 1999 00:20:43 %2B0100" References: <Pine.GSO.4.10.9907052110250.13873-100000@uther.wam.umd.edu> <xzp7locthir.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <xzp1zektgp2.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <5laet8b2l8.fsf@assaris.sics.se> <xzpiu7wrx7q.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <5lemij265u.fsf@assaris.sics.se> <3788714D.4E666FFA@newsguy.com> <19990712002043.C7067@oaktree.co.uk>
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Jon Ribbens <jon@oaktree.co.uk> writes: > "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> wrote: > > OTOH, though, FreeBSD's malloc() is very unlikely to return an out > > of memory error. > Why is that? Because FreeBSD overcommits memory. You can allocate (almost) as much memory as you want regardless of how much RAM / swap you have. You won't run into trouble unless you actually try to use too much of it. > What happens if the process hits its resource limits? Malloc() fails with ENOMEM. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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