Post #2467859
2026-04-13 23:22 UTC
@toroidalcore@masto.hackers.town I wish I could offer advice but all I can do is commiserate.. Linux is just *terrible* under any amount of memory pressure. Like you found, vm.swappiness can help, but even with tuning that it's leagues away from Windows and MacOS. Systemd's OOM killer is borderline worthless, too - I've had times where I run memory-leaky games and the OOM killer *never* kills them. It's always some other random process.
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@toroidalcore@masto.hackers.town 2026-04-13 23:34
@nepi@gts.nepi.gay Is it something to do with how the page file works under Windows, like it dynamically grows it as it needs more? I thought more recent kernels were actually trying to address this somewhat. Also, I think there's an overcommit sysctl parameter that can be tweaked as well.