prelockd
Lock executables and shared libraries in memory to improve system responsiveness under low-memory conditions (by hakavlad)
memavaild
Improve responsiveness during heavy swapping: keep amount of available memory (by hakavlad)
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| prelockd | memavaild | |
|---|---|---|
| 6 | 1 | |
| 100 | 33 | |
| - | - | |
| 2.5 | 0.0 | |
| 6 months ago | almost 3 years ago | |
| Python | Python | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
prelockd
Posts with mentions or reviews of prelockd.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-09.
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Linuxatemyram.com
This may or may not preserve your desktop and other important applications in an OOM situation. https://github.com/hakavlad/prelockd
- force specific program to use ram instead of swap as much as possible?
- Looking for better scheduler for high core system
- Can someone explain me why do DEs crash like any other application?
- Prelockd
- Amazon 46.50% with 4.79% runtime slowdown using proactive memory reclaim
memavaild
Posts with mentions or reviews of memavaild.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-06-10.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing prelockd and memavaild you can also consider the following projects:
nohang - A sophisticated low memory handler for Linux
le9-patch - [PATCH] mm: Protect the working set under memory pressure to prevent thrashing, avoid high latency and prevent livelock in near-OOM conditions
mio - Cross-platform C++11 header-only library for memory mapped file IO
vmtouch - Portable file system cache diagnostics and control
pf-kernel
ksm_preload - Enables legacy applications to leverage Linux's memory deduplication.
earlyoom - earlyoom - Early OOM Daemon for Linux