If your production Linux system is logging memory allocation failures, it might still be able to keep running. But developers want to keep an eye on which code can survive a shortage of memory. In ...
Lets say you setup thin-provisioning on a LUN (LUN A) and initially it's sized to 100GB but only uses 10GB (assume the data is being written in a contiguous matter), then another LUN (LUN B) is ...
I have someone telling me that malloc() requests a contiguous physical address space in real RAM chips, and fails if it doesn't exist. From everything I've read (I'm not a programmer myself), there is ...