> This is not true. Yeah that wasn't correct. It will however cause the kernel to refuse memory allocations[1] which could have been allowed, and a lot of prog

> This is not true. Yeah that wasn't correct. It will however cause the kernel to refuse memory allocations[1] which could have been allowed, and a lot of programs don't handle that gracefully. [1]: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v6.13/mm/overcommit-accounting.html https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v6.13/mm/overcommit-accounti...