On Thursday 16 November 2006 13:24, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: > > Fail: realloc: resource exhausted (out of memory) > > That's weird -- modern systems don't return ENOMEM on alloc, they > either crash or send signals to random processes (which usually > results in killing your X server).
Wrong, the Kernel as of 2.6.14 now returns ENOMEM for requests if the ulimits are set for strict control of the userland forcing the OOM killer to send the app ENOMEM and SIGABRT. > What's the result of ``ulimit -a''? > > What system are you using? If it's Linux, what's the result of > ``cat /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory''? > > Juliusz > > _______________________________________________ > parted-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/parted-devel -- Gary L. Greene, Jr. Sent from: uriel.tolharadys.net 09:27:52 up 1 day, 23:26, 5 users, load average: 0.32, 0.08, 0.03 ========================================================================= Volunteer Developer for the PhoeNUX OS open source project See http://www.phoenuxos.com/ for more information ========================================================================= Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments.
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