Subject: Re: bug#54698: non-recursive GC marking [PATCH]

From: Po Lu <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2022 19:58:44 +0800

Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]> writes:

> I don't think we should recommend doing this.  It has serious
> deleterious effects on the operating system, because many programs
> written for GNU/Linux depends on the current behaviour (where malloc-ing
> basically never ever fails).

They will either get killed by the out-of-memory killer when overcommit
is on, or they will abort (or crash) on failed malloc.  IME all except
for some special niche programs work with overcommit off.