[TUHS] VM over-commit (and the OOM killers)

[Chet Ramey via TUHS]

On 2/28/25 12:08 AM, Greg A. Woods wrote:

> Some systems, e.g. macOS (nee OS X) somewhat solved the problem by
> simply adding more swap space dynamically by creating files in the root
> filesystem (until the disk fills).

I think this is one of the things macOS inherited from NeXT.

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