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Subject: Re: swap-related problems 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 14 Apr 1999 14:55:27 CDT."
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Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 22:00:59 +0200
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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
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In message <14100.61923.427423.153188@avalon.east>, Anthony Kimball writes:
>
>: > 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
>
>Not so hard.

1. Demonstrate the need.

2. Implement it

3. Send patches.

--
Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
phk@FreeBSD.ORG               "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."
FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far!


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