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It isn't though. Whatever rogue process is generating the garbage so quickly has likely thrown and died (potentially leaving other, useful processes, able to co
by lostcolony 6y ago
It isn't though. Whatever rogue process is generating the garbage so quickly has likely thrown and died (potentially leaving other, useful processes, able to continue work). Not 100%, of course, but there's a solid chance that the garbage will stop being generated.
Also, forcing manual intervention has a psychological effect. An alarm that goes off at 8 GB remaining? Eh, I'll get to it at some point. A "disk is full, error, error, everything is broken"? I will deal with it -right now-, especially since I know a fix. Do that, with an alarm at 16 GB (so I still get the early alert in the event I'm that good a citizen and actually prioritize getting to the bottom of it even though it's caused no issue yet), and I'm in a better position still.