Re: 2.2/2.4/2.6 VMs: do malloc() ever return NULL?

Rik van Riel
2003-11-25T16:58:40Z

On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, Ihar 'Philips' Filipau wrote:

> 2.6: the same as 2.4 with oom killer (default conf). I have no test
> system to check 2.6. w/o oom killer.

# echo 2 > /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory

Then try again.

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