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silon42 • last Friday at 9:26 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

Maybe it should use MAP_NORESERVE ?

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laurencerowe • yesterday at 12:24 AM

I expect it does already, but I don’t think it would help here:

> In mode 2 the MAP_NORESERVE flag is ignored.

https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/vm/overcommit-accou...