Date: 19 Jul 1999 18:06:37 +0200 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> To: "Kelly Yancey" <kbyanc@alcnet.com> Cc: <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Overcommit and calloc() Message-ID: <xzp3dykmxo2.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: "Kelly Yancey"'s message of "Mon, 19 Jul 1999 11:54:05 -0400" References: <001501bed1fe$edf66980$291c453f@kbyanc.alcnet.com>
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"Kelly Yancey" <kbyanc@alcnet.com> writes:
> I'm afraid my question got lost amongst the see of overcommit messages. :)
> I was curious if calloc() was overcommitted also?
Here's our calloc() implementation:
void *
calloc(num, size)
size_t num;
register size_t size;
{
register void *p;
size *= num;
if ( (p = malloc(size)) )
bzero(p, size);
return(p);
}
so the answer is yes, it overcommits, but the bzero() may cause the
system to run out of swap.
DES
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no
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