Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> I ran a benchmark about two+ years ago which required significant swap
> space to complete; otherwise the Out-of-Memory monitor would kill it
> (somewhat strange, since the program was designed to take a failure from
> malloc() as signal to shut down and report results -- and that part worked
> on a No-OS embedded system).
Why would malloc() fail if there was swap space?
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