> > > In what scenario can "strict overcommit" kill?
> >
> > When the kernel grabs over 50% of RAM. Remember that includes page
> > tables. I've seen the kernel taking 35% of RAM.
>
> But it could happen that kernel would attempt to allocate 101% of RAM
> for page tables, right? At that even "paranoid overcommit" might be OOM,
> right?
Indeed, there are a number of places where memory allocation
by the kernel is pretty much unbound.
IMHO we need to fix those.
regards,
Rik
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