[nitrogen]

I've used applications that will specifically allocate (available memory * x) or similar because they or their plugins can't handle ENOMEM or the Windows equivalent, and they do not want to swap.

[poizan42]

Those applications were broken anyways, see https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20120118-00/?p=85...

[nitrogen]

Isn't that basically what browsers do these days?