On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 08:21:55AM -0700, Alex Martelli wrote: > Unbelievable as this may seem, this crazy over-committing malloc > behavior is by now "a classic" -- I first fought against it in 1990, > when IBM released AIX 3 for its then-new RS/6000 line of workstations; > in a later minor release they did provide a way to optionally switch > this off, but, like on Linux, it's a system-wide switch, NOT > per-process:-(. > > I concur with http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/lk/lk-9.html (the best > explanation I know of the subject, and recommended reading) which, on > this subject, says "Linux on the other hand is seriously broken." > (just like AIX 3 was). Sad to learn that BSD is now also broken in > the same way:-(.
It's now "now" also broken, it has been that way for a very long time. For example, see this message I wrote back in July 1999 complaining about FreeBSD overcommit: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg01056.html _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
