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From: "Sascha Retzki" <sretzki@gmx.de>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Swap considered harmful (Sorry)
Date: Mon,  7 Aug 2006 20:13:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b7c16aee870343448e8c5dcf9e6c5ec7@mail.gmx.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44D77D11.5080904@gmail.com>


> 
> 
> BUGS
>        By default, Linux follows an  optimistic  memory  allocation
> strategy.
>        This  means  that  when malloc() returns non-NULL there is no
> guarantee
>        that the memory really is available. 


Haha

Nice!

Yeah, I once saw a linux-kernel kill random(!) processes because there was no memory - there seems to have been some memory leak, it started right in the boot-processes to kill all services (sshd, apache, mysql, etc), killed the vt-emulators (those login:-processes on alt+Fn), init, everything, then paniced because there was no init anymore. It was great cinema.



  reply	other threads:[~2006-08-07 18:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-13 13:52 Brantley Coile
2006-07-13 14:06 ` Charles Forsyth
2006-07-13 16:07   ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-07-13 16:08     ` quanstro
2006-07-14 11:10       ` Paweł Lasek
2006-07-14 11:54         ` quanstro
2006-07-14 19:40           ` Paweł Lasek
2006-08-07 17:49     ` Lluís Batlle i Rossell
2006-08-07 18:13       ` Sascha Retzki [this message]
2006-07-13 16:09 ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-07-13 16:07   ` quanstro
2006-07-13 17:05   ` David Leimbach

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