From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932480AbVLURjI (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Dec 2005 12:39:08 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751145AbVLURjI (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Dec 2005 12:39:08 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:34452 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751144AbVLURjF (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Dec 2005 12:39:05 -0500 Subject: Re: Question on the current behaviour of malloc () on Linux From: Arjan van de Ven To: Jie Zhang Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, lars.friedrich@wago.com In-Reply-To: <6f48278f0512210936y25169c37t9fb7eb13fef3a97d@mail.gmail.com> References: <6f48278f0512210936y25169c37t9fb7eb13fef3a97d@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 18:39:00 +0100 Message-Id: <1135186740.3456.68.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -2.8 (--) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.0.4 on pentafluge.infradead.org summary: Content analysis details: (-2.8 points, 5.0 required) pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- -2.8 ALL_TRUSTED Did not pass through any untrusted hosts X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2005-12-22 at 01:36 +0800, Jie Zhang wrote: > Hi, > > I first asked this question on uClinux mailing list. My first question > is . > Although I found this issue on uClinux, it's also can be demostrated > on Linux. This is a small program: see "overcommit". Disable it if you want the behavior you want...