Overcommit seems to have changed somewhat since the "early days," as it's now heuristic. I ran into this once when I couldn't malloc 8 GB on a 64-bit machine be

Overcommit seems to have changed somewhat since the "early days," as it's now heuristic. I ran into this once when I couldn't malloc 8 GB on a 64-bit machine because RAM + swap was less than 8 GB. http://www.mjmwired.net/kernel/Documentation/vm/overcommit-accounting http://www.mjmwired.net/kernel/Documentation/vm/overcommit-a...