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prelockd
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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
wsl-drop-cache
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Linuxatemyram.com
That's just one part of the issue - even after forcefully dropping Linux's caches, WSL has been unable to reclaim the memory back reliably. There has been a recent update that claims to finally fix this.
You might find this package helpful: https://github.com/arkane-systems/wsl-drop-cache
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WSL2 Massive Paging File Size Taking Up Over 1/3 of Total Ram
Yeah. for a while I used validatedev/drop-cache-if-idle. There's also arkane-systems/wsl-drop-cache which seems to be a little newer.
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Release Dropcacheifidle
Repo at arkane-systems/wsl-drop-cache: Periodically drop the WSL caches when load is low. (github.com) , installable from wsl-transdebian | A repository for WSL-only apt packages. (arkane-systems.github.io) .
What are some alternatives?
nohang - A sophisticated low memory handler for Linux
ksm_preload - Enables legacy applications to leverage Linux's memory deduplication.
le9-patch - [PATCH] mm: Protect the working set under memory pressure to prevent thrashing, avoid high latency and prevent livelock in near-OOM conditions
drop-cache-if-idle - The tool which doesn't interrupt your processes, drops the cache if and only if the machine is idle.
memavaild - Improve responsiveness during heavy swapping: keep amount of available memory
earlyoom - earlyoom - Early OOM Daemon for Linux
mio - Cross-platform C++11 header-only library for memory mapped file IO
vmtouch - Portable file system cache diagnostics and control
pf-kernel