[Kst] memory overcommit...

[George Staikos]

On June 22, 2004 14:09, Andrew Walker wrote:
> On Linux 2.6 and later the overcommit memory "feature" of Linux can be
> disabled via the command "sysctl -w vm.overcommit_memory=2"
>
> This will allow us to recommend that the user do this, and then Kst will be
> significantly more robust. Thus, I believe that it makes sense for us to
> institute a policy of checking all memory allocations. Yes, I am aware that
> Qt does not yet do this, but "features" in their code do not have to be
> "features" in ours.

I think we already agreed that this could be done for big allocations 
(vectors), but we will not do it anywhere else.

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George Staikos
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