Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 24 Mar 2000 08:43:27 -0500 (EST) | From | "Richard B. Johnson" <> | Subject | RE: Overcommitable memory?? |
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On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, David Schwartz wrote: > > > If there was a portable way to detect imminent resource > > exhaustion before malloc starts to fail, I'd happily use it. > > If there was a way to look into the future, I'm sure we'd > all happily use it :) >
Some system call "get_free_pages", maybe... If it's getting low, don't do <something> you were about to do??
This requires cooperative tasks, but many programs could be "taught" to cooperate, just put such a call into malloc().
Cheers, Dick Johnson
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