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SubjectRe: Out Of Memory in v. 2.1
Hi Matthew, 

On Sat, 3 Oct 1998, Matthew Hawkins wrote:

> > -----------------------------------
> > #include <stdlib.h>
> >
> > main()
> > {
> > while(1)
> > {
> > if( malloc(2048) == 0)
> > sleep(1);
> > }
> > }
> > -----------------------------------
>
> Somebody slap me if I'm missing something obvious, but shouldn't this have
> absolutely no effect on the system whatsoever until the allocated memory is
> written to? Was the copy-on-write protection taken out of the kernel?

Normally this pages are written to, because there is some administrative
data at the start of the memory block. This way the first page is usually
written to automatically.

cu
Torsten



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