> There is no point handling the cases you cant get out of. If you look at > the kernel you will see a lot of cases where we dont check stuff because > a) it cant actually fail in the real world during init time
Microsoft has written a simple OOM tester for Windows 2000:
after 7 Minutes, the kernel begins to fail memory allocation
(~ 5 % of all allocations).
It's a requirement for the Windows Logo program that a kernel driver
must not oops.
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Manfred
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