malloc does not return null when out of memory

[Fred Gilham]

Gabor,

Did you try the following?

 ln -s 'J' /etc/malloc.conf

This will make malloc touch the bytes as it allocates them, and should
cause it to realize it can't get the memory sooner.

It will cause a slowdown for every program on the system that uses
malloc, but perhaps it could at least solve the problem you are
having.

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