Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 7 Jul 2006 04:54:41 -0500 | From | Robin Holt <> | Subject | Re: Commenting out out_of_memory() function in __alloc_pages() |
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I am not sure about x86, but on ia64, you would be very hard pressed for this application to actually run you out of memory. With the memset commented out, you would be allocating vmas, etc, but you would not be actually putting pages behind those virtual addresses.
Thanks, Robin
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#include<stdio.h> #include<string.h>
main() { char* buff; int count; count=0; while(1) { printf("\nOOM Test: Counter = %d", count); buff = (char*) malloc(1024); // memset(buff,'\0',1024); count++; if (buff==NULL) { printf("\nOOM Test: Memory allocation error"); } } } - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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