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- From: robertl@cwi.nl (Robert van Liere)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: Not enough swap space
- Message-ID: <7085@charon.cwi.nl>
- Date: 19 Aug 92 20:47:20 GMT
- Sender: news@cwi.nl
- Organization: CWI, Amsterdam
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- A long, long time ago (i.e. in the 3.3.? days) Lance M Option @ NIH
- wrote :
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- > SGI System Gurus:
- > We are experiencing problems with "malloc()". It seems
- > that if an amount of memory greater than the sum of
- > free memory and free swap space is requested, the malloc()
- > succeeds, but the program is killed by the OS when the
- > memory is used. How can this condition be caught? Can't
- > the OS give some indication to the user of why his proc died?
-
- We are currently experiencing this behavior as well. Can this condition
- be caught in 4.0.5 ? If not, is there something else we can do to avoid
- these (SysV related) "problems".
-
-
- -- Robert van Liere
-
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- --
- Robert van Liere, Department of Interactive Systems,
- Center for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI)
- Kruislaan 413, 1098 SJ Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- email: robertl@cwi.nl | tel: +31-20-592-4118 | fax: +31-20-592-4199
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