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0x0 on Nov 8, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: How to fill 90% of free memory?

I'm pretty sure that even if you malloc an enormous amount of memory, it will occupy close to no resources as long as the contents are not touched. Also related: "overcommit memory".

e12e on Nov 8, 2013 [–]

Linux is a bit strange when it comes to memory allocation, see eg:

http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/lk/lk-9.html#ss9.6

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