[Info-vax] OpenVMS I64 V8.1 "Evaluation Release"?

[Paul Sture]

On Thu, 22 Mar 2012 22:33:26 +0000, glen herrmannsfeldt wrote:

> Reminds me, though, of once trying to figure out how much virtual memory
> was available by allocating it and counting. Then, on an HP-UX machine,
> tried:
> 
> for(; malloc(1000);
> 
> which, after not so long, crashed the machine.
> 
> (I am not sure of the exaxt number in the malloc, but at some point the
> system couldn't allocate memory for some important use and just gave up.
> You aren't supposed to be able to crash unix running as an ordinary
> (non-root) user, but sometimes.)

Again on my old iBook, one of my early attempts to manipulate strings in 
a tight loop using Objective-C resulted in a serious memory leak.  That 
put the system in an extremely unstable state, and yes, I was running as 
an ordinary user.  Hitting the power button was the only way out.



-- 
Paul Sture