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Ubuntu 24.04 increases vm.max_map_count for smoother Linux gaming (www.gamingonlinux.com)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

The whole point is to prevent one process from using too much memory. The whole point of the Steam Deck is to have one process use all the memory.

So it makes sense to keep it relatively low for servers where runaway memory use is a bug that should crash the process, but not in a gaming scenario where high memory usage is absolutely expected.