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Date: Tue,  4 Sep 2007 08:18:36 -0700
From: "ron minnich" <rminnich@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] plan 9 overcommits memory?
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Two cases so far: running out of stack and allocating overcommited memory.

You can easily catch stack growth failure in the OS. The proc gets a
note. The proc has the
option of the equivalent of 'echo growstack xyz > /proc/me/ctl'.

For overcommits, 'echo faultall > /proc/me/ctl'.

can we catch everything this way?

ron