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<chapter Id="runtime">
<title>Operating System Environment</title>
being invoked altogether, it will lower the chances significantly and
will therefore lead to more robust system behavior. (It might also
cause <function>fork()</> to fail when the machine appears to have
- available memory but it is actually reserved
+ available memory but it is actually reserved
to other applications with careless memory allocation.) This
is done by selecting strict overcommit mode via
<command>sysctl</command>: