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Disabling memory overcommit on per-allocation basis

Is there a way to try to allocate a memory chunk and get an error if the memory is not instantly available?

calloc() seems like a good candidate as it touches the whole allocated memory immediately, however, I guess it will kill the process instead of returning NULL.

Any other options?

Solution

  • No replies. I assume there is no way to disable application being OOM-killed because of a large allocation.