From:	"John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: mem alloc taking up power of 2
Date:	Wed, 23 Jul 1997 21:18:42 +0000
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Esa Peuha wrote:
> 
> So if I write a program that allocates all the memory it can get, writes
> a file that fills the hard disk, and then begins to fill the memory it
> has allocated, what will happen when there's no physical free memory
> left? Obviously the DPMI host must page out some memory, but it can't
> because there's no free disk space, so it must crash the program. Very
> nice and intelligent indeed ;-)
> 
> BTW, if it crashes with SIGSEGV, then this can be the reason I crashed
> ld.exe a while back.

I don't know; I imagine it would crash with a page fault if at all under
such a situation, but I've never seen it happen.  I may try testing it
to find out; in the meantime I hope Charles Sandmann or somebody else
can clear this up.  ;)

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