@qwertydotplus@mastodon.social
2026-09-20 14:08 UTC
@etchedpixels@mastodon.social just as a comparison, testing with overcommit disabled, i can barely use 30% of my RAM before the application i'm currently using crashes. this does not work! this cannot work, for any system that ever runs an application that ever uses more memory than it needs.
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@etchedpixels@mastodon.social 2026-09-20 15:22
@qwertydotplus@mastodon.social you need more swap to cover the potential needs. It's a trade off between thrashing and basically crashing and not. Unfortunately lots of software these days is incredibly sloppy about memory so the amount of overcommit on a junkware Linux desktop is enormous