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There's a third reason: trying to allocate too much virtual memory on machines with limited physical memory will fail on Linux with the default setting vm.overc
by cesarb 8y ago
There's a third reason: trying to allocate too much virtual memory on machines with limited physical memory will fail on Linux with the default setting vm.overcommit_memory=0. See for instance https://bugs.chromium.org/p/webm/issues/detail?id=78 https://bugs.chromium.org/p/webm/issues/detail?id=78
- sitkack 8y agoAnd those processes with large VM usage also have a problem doing an exec (fork/execvp pair) because of address space exhaustion.