prelockd VS nohang

Compare prelockd vs nohang and see what are their differences.

prelockd

Lock executables and shared libraries in memory to improve system responsiveness under low-memory conditions (by hakavlad)

nohang

A sophisticated low memory handler for Linux (by hakavlad)
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prelockd nohang
6 29
100 995
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2.5 4.3
6 months ago 3 months ago
Python Python
MIT License MIT License
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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.

nohang

Posts with mentions or reviews of nohang. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-02.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing prelockd and nohang you can also consider the following projects:

le9-patch - [PATCH] mm: Protect the working set under memory pressure to prevent thrashing, avoid high latency and prevent livelock in near-OOM conditions

earlyoom - earlyoom - Early OOM Daemon for Linux

memavaild - Improve responsiveness during heavy swapping: keep amount of available memory

oomd - A userspace out-of-memory killer

mio - Cross-platform C++11 header-only library for memory mapped file IO

Ananicy - Ananicy - is Another auto nice daemon, with community rules support (Use pull request please)

vmtouch - Portable file system cache diagnostics and control

Ananicy Cpp - A full, event-based rewrite of Ananicy made in C++ for better performance.

pf-kernel

ksm_preload - Enables legacy applications to leverage Linux's memory deduplication.

systemd-swap - Script for creating hybrid swap space from zram swaps, swap files and swap partitions.