those responsible for overcommit should be thrown out of an airplane
@andrewrk "No more seats in the airplane, musical chair in midair happening"
@andrewrk wait are we talking about memory overcommit, or the way they overbook flights expecting a few people to not show up

@andrewrk

Memory overcommit ? It can be useful, but it's usually abused.

My plan is to mmap a huge piece of memory then just madvise MADV_DONTNEED pages when "freeing" memory.

It's funny to `echo 2 > /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory` and enjoy all the crashes because nobody handles memory allocation errors.