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Re:The Linux kernel's inability to gracefully handle low mem... by inetknght on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @12:24AM (#20622113)
> * You have to evict something. What's your choice if not swap or filesystem-backed pages?*

How about fail to allocate more memory than the system actually has?

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