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		sillystuff on Dec 7, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I've now disabled systemd-oomd on my Fedora deskto... Linux has never forced you to use memory overcommit. You can argue about the default, but the default seems pretty sane for most systems/use cases. https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/vm/overcommit-accou...

orra on Dec 7, 2022 [–]

Good to know it's not required, but I'd certainly say it's a bad default. I can understand an app that is denied a malloc crashing.

But an app which thinks it has successfully been allocated memory, being chosen at random to crash? Not ideal, just like in OP's example.

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