Another unpopular opinion: Don’t blame Linux for overcommit. Blame Unix for the fork/exec model.
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Well, fork doesn’t fail *because* of overcommit :)
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Haiku also does not overcommit on fork (the vmm supports overcommit but it's used in some *very* specific circumstances only atm); and we have indeed gotten complaints on occasion about "fork: error: OOM"
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