Antoine Pitrou added the comment: > Hm... > What's /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory ? > If it's set to 0, then the kernel will always overcommit.
Ah, indeed. > If you set it to 2, normally you'd definitely get ENOMEM You're right, but with weird results: $ gcc -o /tmp/test test.c; /tmp/test malloc() returned NULL after 600MB $ gcc -DDO_MEMSET -o /tmp/test test.c; /tmp/test malloc() returned NULL after 600MB (I'm supposed to have gigabytes free?!) ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue21233> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
