[PD-dev] memory locking policy
Tom Schouten
doelie at zzz.kotnet.org
Wed Oct 20 11:26:56 CEST 2004
On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 12:29:36PM +0200, Tim Blechmann wrote:
> > what sets the upper limit actually?
> from what i understand there is no actual limitation in memory ...
>
> i found this posting on the linux kernel mailing list by Chris Friesen:
> > and that the apps may segfault if
> > they try to write to newly allocated memory and there is no more left.
> > It will still be possible to segfault on newly allocated stack as
> > well.
>
> so it depends on _when_ it's written to the memory ...
>
> cheers ... tim
>
it seems this indeed can only be solved by allocating everything
in advance.. so what you suggest might be a good idea.
maybe a special-purpose malloc would do the trick?
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