On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 07:55:16PM -0800, tiller man wrote: > And thats where the problem is. It doesn't fail in the call to > malloc() or realloc(), it appears to continue running. However, the > machine locks up at this point. > > (Well so it would seem, I am not sure if it still running the > process at all, or just being extremely slow, as I only print out > debugging information every 1000 allocations or so). > > Now, I currently access this machine(AMD64 with 1GB of memory I > believe) through ssh, as it is not located directly at my workplace. So presumably, you can't see the hard drive light? Next time, ask your restarter-person what it's doing. My standard guess for "system becomes unresponsive due to memory allocation" is that it's thrashing the swap.
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