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		Bjartr 2 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Vm.overcommit_memory=2 is the right setting for se... But why would you want to violate the docs on something as fundamental as malloc? Why risk relying on implementation specific quirks in the first place?

im3w1l 2 days ago [–]

Because it's orders of magnitudes easier not to handle it. It's really as simple as that.

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