Unix Programming - Re: apparent 4 GB memory limit for brk() in solaris 8 on some

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Re: apparent 4 GB memory limit for brk() in solaris 8 on some

Stefaan A Eeckels

2005-07-29, 6:01 pm

On 29 Jul 2005 09:06:41 -0700
clsmyth@fuzzy-elves.org wrote:

> I *really like* the pulling memory idea. It doesn't really make a lot
> of sense to me, that a program would be "confused" by too much memory,
> but I like the idea nonetheless. It is high on my list of things to
> try next.

I've seen this before when the programmers tried to be clever and
dynamically adapt their program to what they believed to be extreme
memory availability. They got their math wrong and the program died
a horrible death with error messages wholly unrelated to the actual
error.

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Stefaan
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