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MacOS handles memory pressure better than Linux imo (at least for interactive use cases) I have seen MacOS overcommit up to 50% of memory and still have the sy
by akdev1l 6mo ago
MacOS handles memory pressure better than Linux imo (at least for interactive use cases)
I have seen MacOS overcommit up to 50% of memory and still have the system be responsive.
Yesterday I filled up my ram accidentally on Fedora and even earlyoom took several minutes to trigger and in the meantime the system was essentially non-responsive
- mcswell 6mo agoThe plural of 'anecdote' is not 'data'.
- dingaling 6mo agoIt's exactly what it is How do you think data is created? It's lots of anecdotes, normalised.
- worthless-trash 6mo agoThis is with earlyoom/systemd-oomd enabled ?
- kergonath 6mo agoFrom my experience it does not help much, and I still get occasional freezes when a program misbehaves on Linux. It’s not a huge problem, but it is a problem and it exists; I have been dealing with it for about 15 years with no significant improvement.
- worthless-trash 6mo agoThe earlyoom/oomd changes are quite recent.. I've had a 'better' experience, but I guess it's not really fixed yet.
- akdev1l 6mo agoYeah, Fedora ships systemd-oomd It did eventually work to but it took a while. It also did not killed the culprit runaway processes somehow but it did kill enough stuff for me to regain control of the system.
- DullJZ 6mo agomacOS uses solid-state drives to do swap to help increase virtual memory. I can run multiple browsers and IDEs smoothly on my 8GB MacBook.