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SubjectRe: Recursive malloc crashing Linux. (Well almost)
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[John Ripley <john@empeg.com>]
> I've encountered this problem too, but with the additional
> restriction of having an environment with 8MB of RAM and no swap.
> I'm not sure I agree with the ability to allocate more memory than
> you have available.

echo 0 > /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory

grep -A10 overcommit /usr/src/linux/Documentation/proc.txt

Peter

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