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Great points. A third reason is core files: That 1 TB of unused virtual memory will be written out to the core file, which will take forever and/or run out of disk. This is part of the problem of running with the address sanitizer: you don't get core files on crashing, because they'd be too big.



Shouldn't that be a sparse file?




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