Messages in this thread | | | From | Jesse Pollard <> | Subject | Re: Overcommitable memory?? | Date | Mon, 20 Mar 2000 05:47:11 -0600 |
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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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jesse I Pollard, II Email: pollard@cats-chateau.net
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