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Re:The Linux kernel's inability to gracefully handle low mem... by cosarara on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @11:13AM (#20625864)
Maybe there's a better way than this, but the same way earlyoom decides it's time to kill processes (% RAM usage) firefox would decide it's time to free cache. While using the 100% of RAM might be the optimal state if you aren't going to use more than that, it's not safe.
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