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PunchyHamsteryesterday at 2:35 AM0 repliesview on HN

Sure if you don't like your stuff to work well. 0 is default for a reason, and "my specific workload is buggy with 0" is not a problem with it, just the reason there are other options

Advertising for 2 with "but apps should handle it" is utter ignorance, and redis example shows that, the database is using the COW fork feature for basically the reason it exists, as do many, many servers and the warning is pretty much tailored for people thinking they are clever and not understanding memory subsystem