Reserving memory for specific purposes. At startup, operating systems and applications reserve fixed amounts of memory (RAM) and may allocate more as needed. Although a virtual memory function ...

If your production Linux system is logging memory allocation failures, it might still be able to keep running. But developers want to keep an eye on which code can survive a shortage of memory. In ...

I have a crazy nasty headache, so I'm not totally all there mentally, but if you're talking about making sure just that the new op succeeded, I don't believe there is a better way. I'm not sure what ...