bug report (complete)
Stephen Weeks
MLton@sourcelight.com
Sun, 15 Jul 2001 20:54:14 -0700
> With regards to changing the mmap message, note that the errno tells you exactly
> what the reason is. We could check this, or else just use strerror, which
> is a C function which converts the errno number to a string describing it.
> I usually use something like
> die("mmap failed (errno %s)", strerror(errno));
> in my code.
OK. I changed it to that. I also changed all the other similar calls to die to
do the same thing.
> Any way, I don't think that I would advise people to increase max-heap since
> usually this will just result in VM thrashing.
OK. We'll leave it as is for now.