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> if I allocate e.g. 80% of the system’s memory upfront, it won’t _actually_ be mapped by the OS until I touch it What about people running vm.overcommit_memor
by vbezhenar 4y ago
> if I allocate e.g. 80% of the system’s memory upfront, it won’t _actually_ be mapped by the OS until I touch it
What about people running vm.overcommit_memory=2
- NavinF 4y agoIn practice that's a broken config because any program that uses the fork syscall will hog all your memory. (Yes fork-exec is stupid, but there's not much you can do about it)