Comment by jart

4 years ago

I've updated the tool to make the default virtual memory limit equal to the total amount of physical ram. https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/commit/7f966de48987f79a... I hope this addresses your concern. No default limit is going to be perfect. Some use cases might want a lot of overcommit for sparse scientific computing. Others might have a ton of RAM, but it's because they want to run thousands of automated programs, rather than one program that dominates the system. I think this is a better limit that's going to help make sure no one runs into any surprises, while still helping to protect the system from an unintentional memory bomb.