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So it turns out it is not possible to invade a lot of memory with just plain integer array because of stack size limitation. So gotta use
malloc
. -
If one doesn't touch the memory after allocating with
malloc
, the os doesn't actually seem to allocate the memory. -
There is some kind of limitation how much memory a process can consume. The process
Segmentation fault
after2048M
even though there is more free memory left.
htop
is much easier and convenient than free
or top
to keep track of memory.