Hi Michael! First of all, thanks for your hint!
On 2 Dec 2001, Michael Heldebrant wrote: > IIRC from the Understanding the Linux Kernel book by O'Reilly, linux > doesn't actually worry about memory until you actually use it. I'm not > sure if a malloc counts as using it for storing data since I'm no C > programmer but unless you actually write to the memory linux doesn't > bother setting up the actual pages since it's a waste for the system to > make and tear down pages that are never accessed. You mean I actually have to write data to the malloc()ed memory region? Greetings, Holger