> And what ever happened to soemone argument about checking/handling
> NULL was more work for the programmer? Hmm? Which is more?
> Implementing a scheme where your prorgam will attempt to free as
> much memory as posible or making sur eyou never use more than you
> need to begin with.
OOM when some process tries to allocate some RAM isn't really a big
issue, the applications just fails.
OOM is a problem though when we need network buffers or something
urgent when the failure modes aren't as pretty... (eg. NFS).
-cw
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