Your examples don't specify if those applications needed large contiguous allocations (which is another problem in itself), only a memory consumption. Actually a program can consume more memory in small allocations, because this way it can use fragmented address space to the fullest.
I'm afraid, a factor of 2 is too small. If an application needs
gigabytes, you'll have hard time trying to convince it to not use
more than 4 gigs. Or more specifically between 2 and 4 gigs.
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