@zwol I don’t get the browser tabs thing either, rocking some 7-12 year old Macs here running Linux, all with 8G of RAM. But I think the OOM is worse for servers and enterprise applications. If your DB gets killed for example. But then maybe, just maybe, you have other issues. On the desktop this has never hit me. But I don’t push my machines that hard, I guess. My M1 with 16G only goes OOM in macOS due to a Safari bug with patreon.com.

@verdre you can disable memory overcommitment I think? Never tried that, as I rarely have issues with OOM. But it should give processes an error when they try to malloc, which they then could handle.