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nohang also has been a good one for desktops, with friendly notifications under memory stress and sane defaults.

Aside these complementary tools, the amount of systemd traps (OOM adjustment score defaults & restrictions, tmux user sessions killed by default etc etc) associated to OOM has really been taking a toll on my nerves over the years.. And kernel progress on this also has been underwhelming.

Also, why has firefox switched off automatic tab unloading when memory is low ONLY FOR LINUX? Much better ux since I turned on browser.tabs.unloadOnLowMemory ...



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