It's unloved on Linux because using Linux under memory pressure sucks. But that's not a good reason to abandon improvements. Even more so with the direction RAM prices are headed

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man8alexd 14 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It sucks without proper cgroup limits because swap makes OOM slower to trigger. Either set the cgroup limits or make the swap small.

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ChocolateGod 14 hours ago | parent [-]

This requires additional setup from the user, the default setup should just "work".

	▲	man8alexd 13 hours ago \| parent [-]
		There are different definitions of "just work".

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gf000 14 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It sucks for interactive use only. It could be solved in user space (see the other comment with cgroups), it just isn't.