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Do other *nix systems behave differently regarding overcommit of memory and malloc() really only erroring out when virtual memory is exhausted (which basically
by bradfa 9y ago
Do other *nix systems behave differently regarding overcommit of memory and malloc() really only erroring out when virtual memory is exhausted (which basically never happens)?
- megous 9y agoIt can happen, I had various issues with my VPS provider which set limits on virtual memory use in his virtualization solution. Programs would crash with malloc failures despite overcommit being enabled.