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    Ram usage on windows compared to Linux (yewtu.be)
    submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/linuxmemes
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    For those who couldn't read the Linux GUI:

    • Windows used 3.4 GB / 8GB
    • Linux used 800 MB/ 8 GB
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    [–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

    This isn't quite true. The system does recover. The mechanism doing the recovery is the kernel OOM killer which begins to shoot processes to free up RAM. Now whether or not the processes you care about survive or not and whether they lost any data you care about is a different question. 🤭 That's a problem elegantly solved on Android by the introduction of its more complex lifecycle which provides data persistence guarantees.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

    There is EarlyOOM which you can configure to shoot processes except the ones you care about.