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Date:      Sat, 16 Mar 2002 11:30:25 -0600 (CST)
From:      mark tinguely <tinguely@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu>
To:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, rc27@cse.Buffalo.EDU
Subject:   Re: Memory management bug in FreeBSD 4.5 RELEASE
Message-ID:  <200203161730.g2GHUPp39177@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu>
In-Reply-To: <200203161714.g2GHEcE11298@tarantula.cse.Buffalo.EDU>

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>  int i = 32;
>
>  int
>  main(){ while (1) malloc(i); }
>
>
>  As long as i is in between 1 and 32, all memory is used up and all swap is used up, and then the process is killed.
>
>  Again, when i > 32, all seems well.

dirty at least a byte of the data:

main(){ while (1) { char *p (char *) malloc(i); *p=0; }

if the memory has not been dirtied, the system does not need to remember
it when physical memory has been depleted.

--mark.

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