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nok22kontoday at 3:31 PM3 repliesview on HN

how exactly did you disabled it on Windows?

I dont think it has an option for that.


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swinglocktoday at 4:15 PM

I don't think it has overcommit at all, at least that's the default. That would be why you don't have Windows OOM killer stories.

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wongarsutoday at 4:08 PM

Not overcommitting is Windows's default and only behavior

A memory allocator can implement overcommit, because you can separate reserving virtual memory and having it backed by physical memory into two different system calls. But from the point of view of the kernel, any time it promises to give you physical memory that memory is backed either by RAM or by space reserved in the swap file

szmarczaktoday at 4:07 PM

Settings -> View advanced system settings -> Performance (Settings) -> Advanced -> Virtual memory (Change...) -> No paging file

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