"Windows 95 was 30 MB" is such an ignorant, obnoxious, trite take. a triple buffered framebuffer (which you want for smooth scrolling) for my 4K display is 70 MB in *pixels alone*. Obviously a complete webpage with precomposed textures would take more.https://twitter.com/julienPauli/status/1042113172143067138 …
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So you are simply assuming *he* (implying *everyone* using linux kernel) can turn it off because it works for *you*. Are you suggesting this mechanism is actually not needed in the kernel as everyone should have it turned off?
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nope. he claimed that setting vm.overcommit_memory=2 inherently breaks fork, which is obviously false, as anyone can verify by, for example, doing that on one of their machines and observing the results
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so there’s no problems with fork and vm.overcommit_memory=2? Why isn’t it the default or even recommended setting then?
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there are obviously no problems with fork and without overcommit because Linux is the only Unix-like that has overcommit enabled by default in the first place, yes.
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i guess it's too much sarcasm to me. I have no idea what are you trying to say anymore
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no sarcasm. I'm saying that you can just disable overcommit and have Linux work like every other OS with fork()...
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Why isn’t it the default or even recommended setting then?
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