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SubjectRe: Overcommitable memory??
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On Sun, 19 Mar 2000, Horst von Brand wrote:
>James Sutherland <jas88@cam.ac.uk> said:
>
>[...]
>
>> However it is handled, you now know that your memory allocation
>> succeeded and you have real memory on your hands, not just an IOU. If
>> there isn't any memory available, you get SIGBUSed - but then OOM
>> conditions usually lead to death anyway.
>
>You can hand out a IOU when you don't have the cash at hand, so you can go
>farther that way. That is why IOUs are around in the first place: They
>_are_ useful, even if more dangerous than hard cash.

You go farther until the mob calls your IOUs. Then you die.
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