Comments on: I Never Had a Machine With More Than 2GB of RAM. But Phoronix Portrays GNU/Linux as Sucking on Memory Management. https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2019/08/07/linux-ram-rant/ Reflections on Technology Wed, 11 Feb 2026 11:00:17 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.40 By: teresaejunior https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2019/08/07/linux-ram-rant/comment-page-1/#comment-558179 Fri, 27 Sep 2019 04:26:01 +0000 http://schestowitz.com/Weblog/?p=5017#comment-558179 Back in 2008, when I started using Linux (SimplyMEPIS), I was amazed at how responsive the system always was with just 256 MB RAM, comparing to Windows XP.

But that changed later. When I had a laptop with 4 GB, I started noticing some slowdown. Today I have 12 GB, and when the usage reaches around 9 GB, or even less, I can already feel how laggy the desktop becomes, almost useless. I don’t know how other OSs handle this, but for years I have been struggling with memory management on Linux, to the point where I considering moving to a BSD or Haiku. I’ve tried many sysctl options, changing or disabling swap, etc., and some things help, but nothing really fixes the problem.

]]> By: Alex https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2019/08/07/linux-ram-rant/comment-page-1/#comment-557490 Wed, 18 Sep 2019 15:25:08 +0000 http://schestowitz.com/Weblog/?p=5017#comment-557490 Tashkinov is not a developer and never been. He is a sysadmin from Russia without CS grade. He is also author of trash anti-Linux website.

]]> By: V7 https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2019/08/07/linux-ram-rant/comment-page-1/#comment-551843 Wed, 07 Aug 2019 14:46:46 +0000 http://schestowitz.com/Weblog/?p=5017#comment-551843 IMHO When developers/coders will stop creating the stuff without any knowledge how to make it right then we’ll have no issues with RAM etc. for sure. Everything might be able to be optimized, but code written already optimized and carefully debugged is better and faster.

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