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 threadroot42Mar 6
@verdre you can disable memory overcommitment I think? Never tried that, as I rarely have issues with OOM. But it should give processes an error when they try to malloc, which they then could handle.
Show threadJonas
@root42 I don’t think anyone in userspace handles malloc() failures, might as well kill apps instead…
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