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    SubjectRe: Memory overcommitting (was Re: http://www.redhat.com/redhat/)
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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...

    Dave
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