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by akira2501 612 days ago
> exceeds available physical memory?

shm and memory mounts use half the available system memory by default. so this is not typically possible.

> are not typically zero'ed out upon disuse

They're zeroed when they're reallocated.

> and the DRAM cells bleed out their voltage.

This occurs in less than a second in almost every room temperature environment.