On Fri, 31 Mar 2023, Tomasz Torcz wrote: > On Fri, Mar 31, 2023 at 06:24:09PM +1100, Michael Chapman wrote: > > On Fri, 31 Mar 2023, Barry wrote: > > [...] > > > If you want to run in ram only then you must turn off the kernel overcommit. > > > Have you done that? If not then you risk processes getting SEGV signals. > > > > Seriously. It's almost as if nobody here is actually reading anything of > > what I've written! > > > > EVERYTHING fits in RAM. The non-guest processes total perhaps a GB in > > total. The guest processes total maybe 200 GB in total. The server has > > more RAM than all of that. > > Your situation seems to be special. People in this thread seem to be > focused on generic Linux computer use-case. And that was entirely my point. Lennart had mentioned one special case. I was just suggesting another one. I wasn't expecting everyone to pile on and say "no, your special case is WRONG, and you're a bad person for even thinking about it!" :-p