Ronald Oussoren <ronaldoussoren@mac.com> added the comment: Having thought about this a little more: I agree, we shouldn’t hard code a limit. I’m not against working around misfeatures, but in this case that’s hard to do: Even if we’d limit the size of a single shared memory segment the user can create a number of them to once again use enough memory to crash the machine. IMHO We should document that this can happen on macOS (preferable with some indication of how much shared memory can safely be used). I’ve therefore added the “Documentation” component. ---------- assignee: -> docs@python components: +Documentation nosy: +docs@python _______________________________________ Python tracker <report@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue39584> _______________________________________