On Fri, 9 Dec 2011, Chris Vine wrote:
On Thu, 8 Dec 2011 11:13:41 -0200
Marcelo Elias Del Valle - SYSMAP SOLUTIONS - Claro MA-SP -
<marcelo.va...@claro.com.br> wrote:
- In some forums, people were complaining about the fact glib aborts
when memory allocation fails, which is bad for a 24/7 running web
server.
This particular criticism has little going for it. Modern operating
systems use swap and memory over-commit, and there is pretty well
nothing you can do once memory is exhausted, particularly if you are a
long way up the call stack. [...]
But still, a sane (or sanely configured) OS can tell when it
receives a huge request for memory that it definitely cannot honor.
In that case -- where memory is not currently exhausted -- it's much
preferable if the app can report "Can't do it" to the user rather
than aborting.
Allin Cottrell
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