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Disk space is comparatively cheap. While it's a silly requirement, it's more usable than most Linux distros that burn every byte of free memory on caching and t
by Karunamon 3y ago
Disk space is comparatively cheap. While it's a silly requirement, it's more usable than most Linux distros that burn every byte of free memory on caching and then turn the OOM killer loose to wreak havoc rather than release some cache.
- rcxdude 3y agolinux will always try to release cache before it invokes the OOM killer: this is part of why the OOM behavior on linux can be so pathological: the 'cached' data includes the code in executable files on disk, and so evicting them from cache in close-to-oom situations will often completely bog down the system with disk thrashing before the oom-killer gets invoked (this is why earlyoom and the like are a thing).