Post #1736094
2022-11-22 18:53 UTC
@gabrielesvelto does this also apply to other platforms ie Android?
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@gabrielesvelto@fosstodon.org 2022-11-22 21:00
@cabanier no, on Android we already have some dedicated machinery that tries to prevent visible processes from dying in front of the user when the phone is running out of memory. However Android's memory killer is a lot more aggressive than Linux and we only have marginal control over what it does. Part of the reason is that phones have no swap space and thus the kernel cannot overcommit, which is quite the issue for something that was designed for it.