Den 16-Mar-00 13:15:39 skrev James Sutherland fĝlgende om "Re: Some questions about linux kernel.":
> No - quite the opposite. I had 0 in /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory. All
> that happened was the compiler processes grabbed all the VM I had,
> malloc() started returning zero, things started dying when they couldn't
> get the memory they needed.
Gcc checks its memory allocations and exits if they fail. That clearly
didn't happen. The reason of course is that putting 0 into
/proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory is darn close to a no-op. What you saw was
the effect of overcommitting memory. The "No memory for process xxx"
messages on the console could have told you that.
Regards,
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