Nice, an operating system that kills desktop X apps when they exceed 500MB and no mention in the install docs.
#OpenBSD
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Replying to @Sonophoto @blakkheim
#OpenBSD doesn’t kill anything. Low ulimit just means the allocation fails. It’s Firefox that then tries to use invalid memory, and crashes.2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes -
Same problem shows up on Linux if you turn off memory overcommit. https://www.etalabs.net/overcommit.html (h/t
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Replying to @AnthonyJBentley @Sonophoto and
There are two unforgivable users of malloc: programs that don’t check the return value, and libraries that kill the program if returns NULL.
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Replying to @AnthonyJBentley @Sonophoto and
virtual memory be available?
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Replying to @ArvidGerstmann @AnthonyJBentley and
No. I assume by virt mem you actually mean swap, which is a horrible idea bc it just changes failure mode to bogging down swapping for weeks
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And virtual *address space* if that's what you meant is highly finite on 32 bit platforms or ilp32 abis, & will run out long before ram/swap
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