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- From: gerth@watson.ibm.com (John Gerth)
- Subject: Re: AIX malloc and fault tolerance
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- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 15:32:19 GMT
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- |> In other posting IBM has recommended setting MALLOCTYPE=3.1, saying this works
- |> at runtime. Have you tried this? If you did it work?
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- Setting MALLOCTYPE isn't related to the problems being discussed in this thread.
- Here the issue is AIX's policy of not actually allocating malloc'ed storage
- until it is touched and this basic policy is part of both 3.1 and 3.2 AIX.
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- John Gerth gerth@watson.ibm.com (914) 784-7639
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