D Language 2.0

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

Walter Bright wrote:
> retard wrote:
>> On Linux the processes almost always stay on main memory, and only 
>> start to fill swap when running out of main memory. So unless you have 
>> no swap set up, OOM cannot happen unless the swap is >95% filled. OOM 
>> inside the GC's virtual memory space can happen earlier, of course.
> 
> Yeah, that's another thing I should have mentioned. When you're running 
> Windows or Linux at the edge of running out of virtual memory, which is 
> when the gc would fail to allocate memory, the system tends to go 
> unstable anyway.
> 
> This is because (as I mentioned before) few apps handle out of memory 
> properly.

Please stop spreading that information. Even if it has truth to it, it's 
not a reason to throw our hands in the air. In my field apps routinely 
encounter and handle the problem of running tight on memory.

Let me make it very clear: I have had malloc return 0 on me.


Andrei