Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 27 Oct 1999 07:58:30 -0400 | From | M Sweger <> | Subject | (fwd) Re: Why Linux CRASHES when process overscome swap memory ????? |
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Path: news.dhp.com!newsfeed.srv.cs.cmu.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.mathworks.com!remarQ-easT!rQdQ!supernews.com!remarQ.com!news.supernews.com!not-for-mail From: David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.system Subject: Re: Why Linux CRASHES when process overscome swap memory ????? Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 00:04:21 -0700 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Lines: 30 Message-ID: <3816A3F5.B66A926D@webmaster.com> References: <37F46566.B4FD0B6@irit.fr> X-Complaints-To: newsabuse@supernews.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Xref: news.dhp.com comp.os.linux.development.system:82047
Francois THIEBOLT wrote: > > Hi, > > Got students writting progs (beginners & pros...), one of them made a > test : > > #include <stdio.h> > #include <stdlib.h> > > int main() > { > char *mem; > const size_t TAILLE=1048576; > > while (1) > { > mem=(char *)malloc(TAILLE); > } > } > > Then linux start to allocate memory, then it uses memory swap and then > it crashes (even mouse isn't responding)...then Reset. > > Got a RHL 6.0 128MB RAM + 1x128MB swap partition...any clue ?
Why does a car crash when you drive it into a wall? This is a classic "then don't do that" question.
DS
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