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Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 01:23:09 +0000
From: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Setting memory allocators for library functions.
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> wrote:
>
>This is all academic since FreeBSD does memory overcommit, so unless
>you run out of address space for your process before you run out of
>actual memory and/or swap (not likely, but quite possible) malloc()
>will never return NULL and you won't know a thing until you dirty one
>page too many and segfault.

What about setrlimit(RLIMIMT_DATA)?

Tony.
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