"Kelly Yancey" <kby...@alcnet.com> writes:
> I'm afraid my question got lost amongst the see of overcommit messages. :)
> I was curious if calloc() was overcommitted also?
Here's our calloc() implementation:
void *
calloc(num, size)
size_t num;
register size_t size;
{
register void *p;
size *= num;
if ( (p = malloc(size)) )
bzero(p, size);
return(p);
}
so the answer is yes, it overcommits, but the bzero() may cause the
system to run out of swap.
DES
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