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[โ€“] Badabinski@kbin.earth 7 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

The issue is that browsers don't release much memory back to the system when it's needed. I wish they'd work more like the Linux kernel's VFS caching later, but they don't (and might not be able to. For example, I do don't think the Linux kernel has good APIs for such a use case).

[โ€“] zea_64@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 14 hours ago

You can write limits to and then poll files in /proc/pressure/ to be notified of resource pressure. Systemd will also set an environment variable for similar files for your cgroup.