Re:Memory leaks are crippling my M1 MacBook Pro
by charcircuit on Sunday November 07, 2021 @09:41PM
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Maybe not constantly but I have to restart my 64 GB Linux machine because it runs out of memory. Linux's OOM killer is terrible. I literally have to wait half an hour while my desktop is frozen for the OOM killer to kick in. And no, spamming the key combo for invoking the OOM killer once this happens doesn't help.
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Re:Memory leaks are crippling my M1 MacBook Pro
by michaelmrose on Sunday November 07, 2021 @09:47PM
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Use earlyoom or another oom daemon for a 1000x better experience and consider figuring out what is leaking. Do you use gnome? It used to have a bad leak that was supposed to have been fixed.
Re:Memory leaks are crippling my M1 MacBook Pro
by charcircuit on Sunday November 07, 2021 @11:24PM
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I think it's mostly firefox just holding things in memory since so much is free. Eventually it just all adds up and eventually I try to compile something and then it will run out of memory.
Yes, I can go setup an oom daemon, but Linux should handle this for me out of the box (ideally with some sort of logic to avoid killing something like X taking down every single program I have open). Getting stuck for half an hour or longer is just not acceptable to let happen.