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Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
verdre ("Jonas") wrote:

One thing I obsess a little bit over is the fact that it’s 2026, we pretend that Linux is a serious OS, but we‘re still losing your data on a regular basis.

Out of memory conditions (OOM) are one of our biggest pain points, so I just did a quick experiment with macOS to see how they are handling OOM.

I loaded about 200 memory heavy tabs in Firefox and kept a close look at memory usage.

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Screenshot of memory pressure info in macOS System Monitor. Shows the memory pressure rising, but no swap is used yet.