>> Sorry FreeBSD doesn't support resource reservation for memory. > >mlock()? BTW, why can't anyone explain why the old behavior WAS THAT >the process would get NULL? Now it's this...
Implementation quirks (bugs) and races. brk(2) used to fail when memory (real+swap) is running short, instead of waiting for the pagers to free some memory (it may be possible to free almost as much memory as there is real memory, e.g., by forgetting that pages backed by vnodes are in core). This tended to cause innocent processes to exit when malloc() failed. However, in simple tests where only one memory hog process is calling malloc(), it only affects the guilty process. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
