Re: Total vs per-cpu memory
On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 07:39:43AM -0800, Francesco Pietra wrote:
> This question is related to problems in running a docking computation. With big
> cases, RAM proves insufficient, resulting in immediate "segmentation fault", so
> that "top" cannot inform. Though, from the code it is clear that memory is
> insufficient to rotate the object in a non-parallelized part of the program.
> Smaller objects do not give problems.
Insufficient ram does not EVER cause a segmentation fault. Only buggy
code causes segmentation faults.
If a bad programmer simply calls malloc and doesn't check that it
succeeded before using it, then you get a segmentation fault, but only
because the programmer didn't write proper code.
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Len Sorensen
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