D Language 2.0

[Leandro Lucarella]

Walter Bright, el 21 de enero a las 13:00 me escribiste:
> 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.

You can run your program with a memory limit, using ulimit for example.
They only way to get an error on allocation is not when the whole system
is going down...

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Leandro Lucarella (AKA luca)                     http://llucax.com.ar/
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