JonasMar 6

One thing I obsess a little bit over is the fact that it’s 2026, we pretend that Linux is a serious OS, but we‘re still losing your data on a regular basis.

Out of memory conditions (OOM) are one of our biggest pain points, so I just did a quick experiment with macOS to see how they are handling OOM.

I loaded about 200 memory heavy tabs in Firefox and kept a close look at memory usage.

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Show threadTobias BernardMar 6
@verdre Who would we need to bribe to get something similar on Linux? @pid_eins? The kernel people? If so, who?
Show threadJonas
@tbernard @pid_eins All of the above, this kind of stuff needs work all across the stack.
Mar 6 at 5:46pmWeb
Show threadTobias BernardMar 7
@verdre @pid_eins put it on the agenda for the next BTO? 🙃