phk malloc, was (Re: ptmalloc2)

[Dan Melomedman]

Bill Hacker wrote:
> If the 'email proxy in question' is that fragile - your statement would 
> appear to be true.

It's only fragile because the OS doesn't guarantee preallocated memory.
That's all. Anyway, I've made the decision to only run software like
this on Linux. Linux actually has the system-wide overcommit switch through
'sysctl'. I wish I could switch it on and off per process through an
environment variable instead. Oh well, can't have it all.