le9-patch
[PATCH] mm: Protect the working set under memory pressure to prevent thrashing, avoid high latency and prevent livelock in near-OOM conditions (by hakavlad)
picom
A lightweight compositor for X11 (by yshui)
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| Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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le9-patch
Posts with mentions or reviews of le9-patch.
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and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-06-27.
- le9-patch prevents system freezes on low-end systems
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zram: swappiness, vfs_cache_pressure, page-cluster, dirty_ratio and dirty_background_ratio settings for gaming machines with HDD and low RAM?
Also, are you using a stock kernel? Try using this patchset https://github.com/hakavlad/le9-patch and more specifically set this
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Does Linux’s memory management suck?
This kernel patch work really well: https://github.com/hakavlad/le9-patch/
- le9 / google mglru patch in pop os kernel
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The case of the programs that were launched with impossible command line options
Oh that’s a known problem. There are many patch sets floating around that fix it by triggering the OOM killer when the system is thrashing: https://github.com/hakavlad/le9-patch
I’ve never ran into this specific problem back when I was daily driving desktop Linux, but I did run into 1000 similar ones that needed bandaid solutions. It’s death of a thousand cuts: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28490753
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Help me out here, why does Windows 10 handle my low memory situation better than Linux (so far)? How do I fix it?
I actually do use the Zen kernel already. If you are already using the zen kernel , make sure to use the latest one which has le9 patches , imho this patch can Improve user experience in tight memory situations. Check this https://github.com/hakavlad/le9-patch, saw many people praise this , but ymmv. Best of luck
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Moving Google Toward the Mainline
- Limit the amount of thrashing or protect some pages from being reclaimed. This has been proposed by Google first and several other people since then, but AFAIK it has never been implemented in the mainline kernel.
Regarding the latter solution, there is a patchset called le9-patch[1] that is included in some alternative Linux kernels and it should be relatively safe to use.
[1]: https://github.com/hakavlad/le9-patch
- Is there a way to make EndeavourOS [XCFE] faster in a laptop with 2GB ram?
- I don't understand RAM resource management on Linux
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nohang: A sophisticated low memory handler for Linux
Patch i was talking about le9-patch. it's only a proof of concept with very rough edges, but consider it isn't written by an experienced kernel developer with deep knowledge of memory subsystem.
picom
Posts with mentions or reviews of picom.
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Can't find picom and polybar default config files
(https://github.com/yshui/picom/blob/next/picom.sample.conf)
- ArchLinux sluggish on 4K monitor
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[photo] installing Debian :)
Also I took a census and zero founding members of NWA are "straight outta Picom". That's right, you heard it here first: Not even MC Ren is running Picom.
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FPS drops when scrolling in monocle layout with Picom
Update: after reporting in picom GitHub repo this is temporarily solved by using --no-frame-pacing. Looks like a recent commit causes this. You can view the discussion here: https://github.com/yshui/picom/issues/1072
- Zoom in and zoom out in dwm?
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Compositor Options for Animations
NEED HELP TESTING (write your issues here): https://github.com/yshui/picom/issues/1052
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[dwm] Beginning on linux desktop, first ricing
Compositor : picom
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In Picom with the rounded-corners setting how do you apply alpha to the menu list?
It looks like this was identified and the repo corrected in Jan (https://github.com/yshui/picom/issues/808) but the NixOS package has not been updated since Nov.
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I have two Linux computers which I use for gaming.... somehow the one with slightly inferior hardware gets significantly better performance. I'm trying to figure out why... any ideas?
If you have compositing you are likely using picom. You can check if it's running with ps -A | grep picom. I've never dealt with this issue as I don't really game on linux often, but I'm sure there's a solution somewhere in the github docs or issues. Worst case scenario you could always just kill the process with killall picom whenever you're about to game, and re-enable it with picom -b after. Do note though that currently running windows might bug out a bit when you kill/start the compositor.
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What are WSL limitations compared with a pure linux install?
Picom is broken for me with GLX backend related Github issue.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing le9-patch and picom you can also consider the following projects:
nohang - A sophisticated low memory handler for Linux
compton - A lightweight compositor for X11 [Moved to: https://github.com/yshui/picom]
earlyoom - earlyoom - Early OOM Daemon for Linux
compton - A compositor for X11.
oomd - A userspace out-of-memory killer
picom - A lightweight compositor for X11 (previously a compton fork)
ZenStates-Linux - Dynamically edit AMD Ryzen processor P-States
wayward - Fast desktop shell for wayland and weston.
prelockd - Lock executables and shared libraries in memory to improve system responsiveness under low-memory conditions
sway - i3-compatible Wayland compositor
darling - Darwin/macOS emulation layer for Linux
void-packages - The Void source packages collection