Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 13 Mar 2000 12:52:54 -0300 (BRST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: Overcommitable memory?? |
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On Mon, 13 Mar 2000, David Whysong wrote: > On 13 Mar 2000, Rask Ingemann Lambertsen wrote: > > > >Apps would be told that the system is out of memory instead of just > >getting a SIGKILL'ed out of the blue sky. Apps getting NULL from > >malloc() can react appropriately, such as saving your files to disk, > > And please explain why my simulation -- that may have started > many weeks (or months) ago -- should "just exit" because some > random 5-minute old Mathematica process went and allocated half > a gigabyte of memory?
This is exactly the situation from which my OOM killer patch will save you. People have tested it and it works great in practice. Speed overhead on a running kernel is ZERO and the size is increased by about two or three kilobytes...
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