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SubjectRe: Avoiding OOM on overcommit...?
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> The process isn't just killed.  It dumps core (the default behavior of
> receiving SIGSEGV according to signal(7)). Which is icing on the cake
> here.

Not always. If there is no memory to grow the stack the signal cannot be
delivered and it gets SIGKILL


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