Thanks for the reply, James! James> intresting this is your printf's dont line up with what has James> been printed. Are you suggesting that the fprintfs are not being flushed? Why do you think this would happen? James> What should really happen is that something should be killed by James> the kernel's oom killer or the malloc should fail. But if its James> overcommiting the malloc will never fail. My process is not being killed, because I have disabled the OOM killer. What I really want to do is set /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory to 2, but the problem with that is bash won't even execute normal programs, even though I have 32MB of ram! -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
