If your production Linux system is logging memory allocation failures, it might still be able to keep running. But developers want to keep an eye on which code can survive a shortage of memory. In ...

Linux processes are made up of text, data, and BSS static segments; in addition, each process has its own stack (which is created with the fork system call). Heap space for Linux tasks are allocated ...

Editor's Note: Embedded Systems Architecture, 2nd Edition, is a practical and technical guide to understanding the components that make up an embedded system’s architecture. Offering detailed ...

Looking for a kernel parameter that I can change that will allow more of our system memory to be used by each process.<BR><BR>right now there seems to be a 600mb limit on some of our boxen and an ...

In C and C++, it can be very convenient to allocate and de-allocate blocks of memory as and when needed. This is certainly standard practice in both languages and almost unavoidable in C++. However, ...