Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Memory overcommitting (was Re: http://www.redhat.com/redhat/) | Date | Thu, 20 Feb 1997 14:46:45 +0000 | From | David A Rusling <> |
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> There are very few guarantees in this life. The power might fail; just > because you an exec a program doesn't mean that it's guaranteed to run. > A meteorite the size of Mexico might land in the ocean, and wipe out all > life in North America..... (and sadly enough, even though your program > successfully called malloc(), it wouldn't be able to use the memory > space because all of the U.S. will have been engulfed in a fireball. :-) >
I would, 'cos I'm in the UK. Mind you I would only have a little while before the giant tidal wave hit...
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