The Natural Philosopher wrote:

> druck wrote:
>
>> In practice the system will appear to hang for a while, possibly a
>> long while, until applications which require more memory either exit
>> cleanly or crash, freeing up some memory and/or swap.
>
> Er no. calls to malloc() will fail and serious errors in applications
> will happen.

Or the OOMK will "off" a greedy process or two :-(

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