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[Raka555]

Amen brother !...

[Raka555]

Tell them Linus !

Also, people should stop using all kinds of things that tamper with the kernel settings (like "laptop mode (tools)",...

[Raka555]

Ah ok. so the killer sheep will be running faster now https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pa...m-8.2-Released

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[Raka555]

The relevance is that people can't resist adding more and more features to software.
It's not about the actual mail thing....

[Raka555]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Zawinski

Zawinski's law of software envelopment (also known as Zawinski's law) comments on the phenomenon...

[Raka555]

You can try what I mentioned in post #13 of this thread and see if it helps.
I am pretty sure it will fix your problem....

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Chrome will also be guessing at the actual memory pressure. I would like the kernel to inform apps like chrome exactly what the situation is.
At...

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I am looking at it from a developer perspective.
As things stand today, I am powerless at what is happening regarding memory management.
I...

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At the moment my program is unaware of memory pressure on the OS and I want to try and free memory to help if I was aware of this.
If every running...

[Raka555]

Have you tried running a kernel with overcommit off ?
I tried that already back in 2012: https://ewontfix.com/3/
You start getting memory...

[Raka555]

The whole way that memory is managed at the moment is actually wrong.
We are trying to map bare metal memory semantics from 30+ years ago onto modern...

[Raka555]

This sounds a lot like out of memory type behaviour ......

[Raka555]

I got the solution !

While (1) {
killall -9 firefox
killall -9 chrome
killall -9 chromium
sleep 600
}
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[Raka555]

At one point I could almost never copy a large-ish file on my laptop without it going into a fit and doing crazy oom things.

I traced it...

[Raka555]

Not sure that systemd (or any init system) really have more information to make a better decision than the kernel.

To me a kind of ok solution...

[Raka555]

The problem is those huge dynamic libraries....

[Raka555]

Is that how long Michael may take off over Christmas ?

On a more serious note. It takes processing power to lump the gnome stack around...

[Raka555]

I don't know why some people hate Intel so much.
They clearly do a lot to make their products work well on open source.
Something I wish their...