Re: 2.2/2.4/2.6 VMs: do malloc() ever return NULL?

From: William Lee Irwin III (wli_at_holomorphy.com)
Date: 11/26/03

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    To: Ihar 'Philips' Filipau <filia@softhome.net>
    
    

    On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 03:33:06PM +0100, Ihar 'Philips' Filipau wrote:
    > How can I tell the limit of the RAM which can be locked?
    > My test had shown that single application can lock 112MB of RAM, but
    > fails to lock 128MB of RAM. (I have 256MB phy RAM - We just cannot find
    > smaller memory modules on market in any way :-))
    > Is it limited to less than half of physical RAM?
    > This would be Ok for me in any way.

    The limit should be available RAM.

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