From: "A. Sinan Unur" <asu1 AT cornell DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: mem alloc taking up power of 2
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 1997 08:11:55 -0400
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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 ;-)

well, maybe you think i could run out and get another hard drive and
install it in your system? 
-- 
   Sinan
 
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