Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 22:00:59 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: alk@pobox.com Cc: dcs@newsguy.com, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: swap-related problems Message-ID: <1892.924120059@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 14 Apr 1999 14:55:27 CDT." <14100.61923.427423.153188@avalon.east>
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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! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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