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From: Duncan Sands <baldrick@free.fr>
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Subject: Re: Is the Ada run-time required to detect out-of-memory
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> Personally, I would just leave it at that.  If someone needs more
> deterministic behaviour than Linux provides, they should be using a
> real-time kernel without any virtual memory.

On a 2.6 kernel,

	echo 2 > /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory

may help.

Ciao,

Duncan.