Re: luac and loadstring hang

[Rob Kendrick <lua-l@...>]

On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:47:32 -0200
Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf@tecgraf.puc-rio.br> wrote:

> > Actually "optimistic memory allocation".  
> 
> Right:
> 
>   "We learned that malloc should return NULL in case of out-of-memory.
>   However, it is not the case in Linux. By default, Linux uses
>   optimistic memory allocation strategy. Under this strategy,
>   Linux assumes there always exists free memory..."

And any Firefox or OpenOffice users should be thankful, given how much
memory these travesties allocate and then never touch :)

You can turn off this over-commit by uttering the correct rune
into /proc somewhere, if memory serves.

B.