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Any real benefit to enabling Multi-Gen LRU? (lemdro.id)

submitted 11 months ago by mfat@lemdro.id to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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In case you don't know Multi-Gen LRU is an alternative LRU implementation that optimizes page reclaim and improves performance under memory pressure. Page reclaim decides the kernel's caching policy and ability to overcommit memory. It directly impacts the kswapd CPU usage and RAM efficiency.

Has anyone enabled this feature on their machines? Have you noticed any performance gains or memory management improvements? It's developed by Google and is reportedly is being used in ChromeOS and Android.

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[–] trachemys@iusearchlinux.fyi 1 points 11 months ago (5 children)

I don’t even use swap anymore. 32gb of ram ought to be enough.

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I know the feeling. I have a “desktop” that has 640GB of memory. Now I say “desktop” because while it IS desktop I mainly use it for a nested virtualization lab.

Of course creating a 500gb RAM disk for some ungodly fast file manipulation is not something I’ve ever thought about or done. /s.

In case you’re wondering it’s an Intel MacPro that just happened to be compatible with the memory in a retired production blade … so yay!

[–] seaQueue@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

I jammed 64GB into my work laptop sort of by accident (I thought the original kit I ordered was 2x16GB but it was 1x32 so why not keep going) and I have no regrets. 20GB tmpfs for builds? Why not?

[–] seaQueue@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I still keep some swap around on the off chance something eats up a shit ton of memory. Dealing with the OOM killer is always a bad time.

If you don't want to use disk swap there's always zram, it'll consume like ~4GB RAM for ~12GB active swap if you use zstd with it. It won't allocate any (meaningful amount of) compressed memory if swap isn't active so there's not much of a downside here.

[–] 30021190@lemmy.cloud.aboutcher.co.uk 2 points 11 months ago

Wait until 32GB RAM isn't enough and the OOM decides to randomly kill processes. Especially with memory leaks...

[–] mvirts@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

I especially love disabling swap on windows, sometimes it gets weird