Re: Question on the current behaviour of malloc () on Linux

[Jesper Juhl]

On 12/21/05, linux-os (Dick Johnson) <linux-os@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
[snip]
>
> To make your wishes come true execute:
>      echo "1" >/proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory

s/"1"/"2"/

> ... as a super-user.
>
> That will make malloc() fail when there isn't any more virtual
> memory.
>
[snip]

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