@verdre Anytime i complain about how poor Linux's memory usage is someone comes and breathes down my spine about how they managed to keep it down to 200mb by running some window manager.. try that on a windows/mac!!

But thats never what it's about 🥹 swap is _really_ barebones on Linux still. Then you have applications which swap out and never return back to ram, so they *feel* slow when your system was low on memory to begin with. This one used to eat me all the time and all you can really do is hit the swapoff key on your keyboard.

And then... ""sparse"" swap space, so you alloc/dealloc swap space overtime... its just not really possible right now, unless you do some funky stuff like swapon a new segment then swapoff and monitor that over time (no idea if that even works). You probably need some systemd/service doohickey for that right now... at least thats all i can think of.