Clarity wrote: Sun May 04, 2025 4:31 pm
This max'ing out memory should not occur assuming there is a matching RAM SWAP implementation in place.
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Thus, this leads back to the developers who 'may' publish what they feel would be a safe RAM size for their distro(s).
Interesting is the fact that I often in the past used a swap partition. However, I found once the swap is used in a significant way, the system becomes so throttled that it's basically unusable until the load is lifted, probably also dependent on the speed of the drive it's writing to, Instead when it came to pups, I used the swapfile option, and found that to be faster. Still not adequate in usability if a really high load was placed on it.
Eventually I obtained all 8GB or 16GB RAM machines, and still usually turning on a swapfile in a pup because the option was available. But came to find that certain KL's like Airedale and Spectr would run just fine with no swap available at ALL (and I didn't know how to enable it in the OS anyway.) I've never filled up the RAM on those two OS's running audio, video, browsers, etc.
However KLV-KDE-Plasma running Wayland is a different story,, and I don't know if Plasma was the deciding factor or not, but that Void-Wayland-Plasma combination would generate huge RAM consumption, filling up to 12GB at times with seeming no high resource applications running. Memory leak or something?
To be clear, I'm never running save-on-demand, I'm doing immediate-write to upper_changes, so it's not an issue of overlay and unwritten changes clogging up the RAM.