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Wow, that's disappointing. It seems there's really a lot of reasons to just accept overcommit on linux. (Browers, js engines used in various components now, dat
by ploxiln 2y ago
Wow, that's disappointing. It seems there's really a lot of reasons to just accept overcommit on linux. (Browers, js engines used in various components now, databases that fork, many existing libraries not expecting allocations to fail ... and I guess they really don't after all?!)
- wmf 2y agoI think to fix this stuff you'd have to time travel back to 1980 or so. There's just so much software dependent on the broken behavior and a culture of not fixing things.