Re: Recursive malloc crashing Linux. (Well almost)
Peter Samuelson (peter@wire.cadcamlab.org)
16 Dec 1999 02:08:26 -0600
[John Ripley <john@empeg.com>]
> I've encountered this problem too, but with the additional
> restriction of having an environment with 8MB of RAM and no swap.
> I'm not sure I agree with the ability to allocate more memory than
> you have available.
echo 0 > /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory
grep -A10 overcommit /usr/src/linux/Documentation/proc.txt
Peter
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