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- From: ddv@unix.brighton.ac.uk (Domenico De Vitto)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer
- Subject: Re: Standard Method of Handling/Detecting Out of Virtual Memory condition
- Message-ID: <1992Nov11.173806.25784@unix.brighton.ac.uk>
- Date: 11 Nov 92 17:38:06 GMT
- Organization: University of Brighton, UK
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- Confusing post !
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- memory=virtual memory=malloc memory=usable address space=what you can have.
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- It's the swappers job to make sure that a process never has such problems, and
- therefore is all transparent no matter how much 'real' memory you have.
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- Dom De Vitto
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