if a program takes up all the available memory haiku freezes

[kaoutsis]

• take this ​http://dev.haiku-os.org/attachment/ticket/1071/area_creation_test.cpp
• run the test and try to take up all the available ram;

for example: ./area_creation_test 100 B_ANY_ADDRESS B_NO_LOCK 'B_WRITE_AREA|B_READ_AREA' 500 eats 200MB

• when the free memory is vanished, haiku will freeze

May be it's better if the program gets killed?

[DarkmatterVale]

I have run out of RAM before and have never seen this problem.

What image are you using? I am on hrev48487 and this does not seem to happen.

[mmu_man]

We can probably close this one too, it's 7 years old.

[DarkmatterVale]

I just tested on hrev49974, and Haiku does not freeze when it runs out of memory. We should be able to close this ticket.

[humdinger]

Thanks for following up on it!