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A bit of a tangent, but I’ve seen these issues mentioned before and to me it’s always felt like more the OS’s fault than Steam’s. Like shouldn’t Steam be free t
by skavi 1y ago
A bit of a tangent, but I’ve seen these issues mentioned before and to me it’s always felt like more the OS’s fault than Steam’s. Like shouldn’t Steam be free to express full utilization of the available resources? And isn’t it the OS’s job to manage QoS?
What am I missing here?
- colechristensen 1y agoSystems tend to not have particularly strong guardrails against pathological access patterns which aren't trying to use 100% but a large multiple of that or are abusing some subsystem or another. The application is almost always also unresponsive. Putting up those guardrails temporarily hides big problems more often than it avoids needing to have them solved.
- cyberpunk 1y agoBEAM handles this very gracefully. Shame preemptive scheduling isn't more common..