On Tuesday, August 30, 2016 at 8:26:29 PM UTC+2, leif wrote:
>
> IMHO horrible (as *each* Sage subprocess is claiming that amount of 
> memory, here usually ~28 to 50+ GB IIRC, as it depends on the physical 
> memory installed) and dangerous, as this makes the usage of 'ulimit -v' 
> nearly impossible 


ulimit -v is useless anyways
 

> and in practice requires to allow vm-overcommit. 


In the default mode (overcommit_memory==0) calls to mmap with MAP_NORESERVE 
are not checked, so you don't have to do anything special. Really, 
restricting virtual memory on a 64-bit system is only for specialist 
applications.
 

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