Memory leaks are crippling my M1 MacBook Pro

Re:Memory leaks are crippling my M1 MacBook Pro by michaelmrose on Sunday November 07, 2021 @09:47PM (#29145734)

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.

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Re:Memory leaks are crippling my M1 MacBook Pro by charcircuit on Sunday November 07, 2021 @11:24PM (#29146114)

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.

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Re:Memory leaks are crippling my M1 MacBook Pro by kabes on Monday November 08, 2021 @02:16AM (#29146755)

Thanks I'll try that. The behavior when memory is low is easily the worst part of desktop Linux

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