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In-Reply-To: Message from Gabor <gabor@vmunix.com> 
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Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 13:43:38 -0700
From: Fred Gilham <gilham@csl.sri.com>
Subject: Re: malloc does not return null when out of memory 
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Gabor,

Did you try the following?

 ln -s 'J' /etc/malloc.conf

This will make malloc touch the bytes as it allocates them, and should
cause it to realize it can't get the memory sooner.

It will cause a slowdown for every program on the system that uses
malloc, but perhaps it could at least solve the problem you are
having.

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