Re: Allocation of too much memory hangs system, kernel 2.2.*

Matthew Kirkwood (weejock@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk)
Sun, 30 May 1999 22:16:00 +0100 (GMT)


On Sat, 29 May 1999, Giuliano Pochini wrote:

> Nope. The program cores at 7, when it reaches 8MB, just like the other
> my testprgs.
> Very very strange. If I allocate memory by malloc(), I can fill all the
> available memory, but if I use infinite recursion the programs stops
> when the stack reaches 8MB...
> Can someone explain me this behaviour ?

ulimit. Default stack size limit (on my distro anyway) is 8Mb.

Matthew.

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