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Arch Linux Increasing Its vm.max_map_count To Help Steam Play Games & Other Software (www.phoronix.com)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Steam has raised it to the MAX_INT - 5

Now I'm interested where the 5 comes from.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

I wonder too!

I'm betting on trial and error. Probably has a mysterious comment in the code, as a warning to other.

Source: I develop software and find these things are either deeply researched and analyzed scientific theory, or the result of guesswork and trial and error. At a ratio of about 95% and 5% respectively.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

95% being trial and error. At least where I work.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

So deeply researched was set at MAX_PERCENT - 5 ?