Jon Ribbens <j...@oaktree.co.uk> writes: > "Daniel C. Sobral" <d...@newsguy.com> wrote: > > OTOH, though, FreeBSD's malloc() is very unlikely to return an out > > of memory error. > Why is that?
Because FreeBSD overcommits memory. You can allocate (almost) as much memory as you want regardless of how much RAM / swap you have. You won't run into trouble unless you actually try to use too much of it. > What happens if the process hits its resource limits? Malloc() fails with ENOMEM. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - d...@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
