Requesting 'real' memory

Posted Feb 8, 2008 21:23 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: Requesting 'real' memory by goaty
Parent article: Avoiding the OOM killer with mem_notify

Linux has used a guard-page stack implementation since forever. It's 
transparent to userspace: the compiler doesn't need to do a thing.

(Obviously when threading things get more complex.)