3. vm.oom_kill_allocating_task is a footgun. It kills the last task that asked for memory and it could be any random task in the system. 4. disabling overcommi

3. vm.oom_kill_allocating_task is a footgun. It kills the last task that asked for memory and it could be any random task in the system. 4. disabling overcommit is another footgun, it makes malloc fail long before the memory is exhausted. See for a detailed explanation https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/797888/1027 https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/797888/1027