D Language 2.0

[Walter Bright]

retard wrote:
> On Linux the processes almost always stay on main memory, and only start 
> to fill swap when running out of main memory. So unless you have no swap 
> set up, OOM cannot happen unless the swap is >95% filled. OOM inside the 
> GC's virtual memory space can happen earlier, of course.

Yeah, that's another thing I should have mentioned. When you're running 
Windows or Linux at the edge of running out of virtual memory, which is 
when the gc would fail to allocate memory, the system tends to go 
unstable anyway.

This is because (as I mentioned before) few apps handle out of memory 
properly.