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From: Michael Snyder <michsnyd@cisco.com>
To: kmacy@fsmware.com
Cc: Paul Koning <pkoning@equallogic.com>,
	gdb@sources.redhat.com,         gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com,
	wendyp@cisco.com
Subject: Re: [RFC] What to do on VM exhaustion
Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2006 01:35:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <43BDC956.1030405@cisco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b1fa29170601051725t2fc37a96r2dc959a45a2aa92f@mail.gmail.com>

Kip Macy wrote:
> Why not just pre-allocate a small arena at startup for an "emergency" 
> malloc? Hardly ideal, but it would allow gdb to fail gracefully.

Wouldn't that require modifying malloc?
Or do you have in mind that, on detecting out-of-VM, we would
free our little reserved chunk, thus making it available for
libc (or whatever)?

Hmmm, I suppose that might work...


  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-01-06  1:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-01-05  1:00 Michael Snyder
2006-01-05  5:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]   ` <43BD965C.1080500@cisco.com>
2006-01-06  8:50     ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-01-05 14:50 ` Paul Koning
2006-01-05 22:00   ` Michael Snyder
     [not found]     ` <b1fa29170601051725t2fc37a96r2dc959a45a2aa92f@mail.gmail.com>
2006-01-06  1:35       ` Michael Snyder [this message]
     [not found]         ` <b1fa29170601051800n452bda22sc28082a2776c858@mail.gmail.com>
2006-01-06  3:16           ` Michael Snyder

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