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Couldn't this obfuscate OOM type problems by not triggering actual memory issues until much later than the allocation?
by cnity 3y ago
Couldn't this obfuscate OOM type problems by not triggering actual memory issues until much later than the allocation?
- cmrdporcupine 3y agoMaybe? Depends on how you monitor and what your expectations are. But for workloads that use a lot of memory, and want to avoid wasteful empty allocations, or have sparse data, etc. it's a reasonable strategy.