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		jcalvinowens 4 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: In defence of swap: common misconceptions (2018) You can trivially disable overcommit on Linux (vm.overcommit_memory=2) to get allocation failures instead of OOMs. But you will find yourself spending a lot more money on RAM :)

hugo1789 4 months ago [–]

And debug many tools which still ignore the fact that malloc could fail.

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