• nucleative@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    EarlyOOM is your friend. Tweak it to save the most important stuff and kill irrelevant stuff first when low on memory.

    • interdimensionalmeme
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      5 months ago

      Why can’t browsers discard tabs to disk instead of this ridiculous assumption that the server will still exist to redownload the tab content rom.

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        5 months ago

        Autodiscard. Its a plugin i use that helps most of the time.

      • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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        5 months ago

        Well… though there are reasons to save pages to disk, the server being still up is a fair assumption, really.

        • biddy@feddit.nl
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          5 months ago

          It isn’t on a mobile device where you might go out of wifi or cellular coverage. But it’s probably a good thing as I don’t want my tab habit wearing out my disk