Yeah this. We had problems on an embedded system running python where things started breaking when the system was low on memory, but not so low that things sho

Yeah this. We had problems on an embedded system running python where things started breaking when the system was low on memory, but not so low that things should have failed. We ended up writing a posix_spawn() wrapper to avoid the OOM caused by duplicating the page table. I think it's weird Python doesn't do that by default when you're just launching an external command.