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From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>
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On 11 Jul 2002, Robert Love wrote:

>...
> In the strictest of modes, it should be impossible to allocate more
> memory than available and impossible to OOM.  All memory failures should
> be pushed down to the allocation routines -- malloc, mmap, etc.
>...

Out of interest:

How is assured that it's impossible to OOM when the amount of memory
shrinks?

IOW:
- allocate very much memory
- "swapoff -a"

> Enjoy,
>
> 	Robert Love

cu
Adrian

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