Per-file OOM badness
Per-file OOM badness
Posted Jun 3, 2022 3:41 UTC (Fri) by neilbrown (subscriber, #359)Parent article: Per-file OOM badness
> In other words, there is still no truly good solution to the OOM problem
Sure there is. It involves applications being written so as to checkpoint important data regularly. i.e. they should be designed to crash.
https://lwn.net/Articles/191059/
Seems to work OK on Android - though some apps are certainly better than others.
My web-browser comes up much where it was before a crash, when that happens.
I don't play "games" (my quest is for better code :-), but I have painful memories of my children on their GameBoy saying "I can't save just now", and how much that annoyed me. You should *always* be able to save, and you should *never* have to because it should be automatic.
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