Call for testers: libiberty/physmem.c
Jason R Thorpe
thorpej@wasabisystems.com
Tue Feb 25 03:06:00 GMT 2003
On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 06:34:31PM -0800, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> I have a theory.
>
> My theory is that, on Darwin, RLIMIT_DATA is applied only to memory
> allocation via brk(), but both malloc() and ggc-page.c are getting
> their memory from mmap() or equivalent. Possibly malloc uses the real
> Mach memory-allocation primitive, whose name I do not remember?
This is a good theory. Anonymous mmap pages were mis-accounted in Mach VM
and in NetBSD's UVM for a while.
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-- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
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