I've been poking at some bugs we have around pushing user memory to/past the limits of our box, and decided to try seeing what happens on a stock FreeBSD system (7.1 in this case).
Basically I have a program that mallocs big memory chunks and zeros them to consume both physical and virtual memory. I had expected the program to stop malloc'ing when brk() reaches the process' RLIMIT_DATA (512MB cur and max). It didn't. It happily malloc'd many gigabytes of memory until I stopped it. On our 6.2 based product boxes, RLIMIT_DATA correctly stops the malloc from continuing, just like the manuals say. Am I missing something? -- Andrew Duane Juniper Networks 978-589-0551 10 Technology Park Dr adu...@juniper.net Westford, MA 01886-3418 _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
