[BusyBox] choice for reserving buffers

[Vladimir N. Oleynik]

Larry Doolittle wrote:

> This is a _very_ old flame war between various *nixes.
> Fortunately, Linux 2.2.x and greater can do what you want,
> or not, selectable at run-time.  I believe the incantation is:
> 
> $ echo 0 > /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory

WOW! Worked! (But witch `1' . '0' - is default.)

Now it is similar on normal Unix. And the more so BSS vs malloc
advantage more and more gets :)


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