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SubjectRe: Overcommitable memory??
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> I do - they just are not enforced. Each time a process forks it gets the
> same limits that the parent has. The sum of all processes then becomes >
> than the system.

Correct,
If limits page is not lying Linux does not have GLOBAL limits. And
methinks that is has grown big enough to need them.

My 0.02$

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2) You can't break even.
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