Wow, my browser is so much faster now
They should port SoftRAM to the web too, I could do with some additional memory.
Not sure if equivalents are still recommended for Windows users, but I've seen zram recommended to Linux users quite a few times.
Someone also wrote a script to start killing processes before the system can hang when it runs out of RAM.
> Someone also wrote a script to start killing processes before the system can hang when it runs out of RAM.
Isn't this exactly what the OOMKiller does?
OOMKiller has a bunch of issues. Its heuristics don't apply well across the wide range of workloads Linux provides (mobile/android? webserver? Database server? build server? desktop client? Gaming machine?), each of which would require its own tuning. (more background at https://lwn.net/Kernel/Index/#Memory_management-Out-of-memor...)
That's why some orgs implemented their own solutions to avoid OOMKiller having to enter the picture, like Facebook's user-space oomd [1] or Android's LMKD [2]