Jon Ribbens <jon@oaktree.co.uk> writes:
> "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> wrote:
> > OTOH, though, FreeBSD's malloc() is very unlikely to return an out
> > of memory error.
> Why is that?

Because FreeBSD overcommits memory. You can allocate (almost) as much
memory as you want regardless of how much RAM / swap you have. You
won't run into trouble unless you actually try to use too much of it.

> What happens if the process hits its resource limits?

Malloc() fails with ENOMEM.

DES
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