Post #1546537
2026-04-14 16:02 UTC
@regehr on an attended single user system, there's a pretty good option (ask the user what they'd like). Other than that...
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@zwol@masto.hackers.town 2026-04-14 17:50
@cliffle @regehr I have a conjecture that almost all of Linux's problems with swap thrashing and OOM killing of random processes are down to two bad defaults: memory overcommit and allowing 30% of phys RAM to fill up with dirty pages before it even starts *background* writeback.