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What are the true consequences of disabling it though? What happens in the OOM situation? Or does it just not allow allocation?



Allocation fails with ENOMEM.


...which is an error that is rarely handled in the code nowadays, therefore highly unexpected behavior may be expected ;)


File and/or tear your vendor a new one.


Edit: file a bug ...




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