Every Linux Distro Should Set This One Value!!

Linux gaming has only been getting better and better but even so there's still issues that need to be resolved and this one change to vm max map count is going to massively improve some games.
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[@redram4574]

sysctl -a | grep max_map_count

[@N0zer0]

or cat /proc/sys/vm/max_map_count

[@cosmicusstardust3300]

or sysctl vm.max_map_count

[@dege10000]

Mine is very high for some reason, is it bad? vm.max_map_count = 2147483642

[@Rezikham]

​@@dege10000 That's the default on SteamOS so shouldn't be a problem

[@leevi6026]

In other distros than Arch you might need to run it as root, so: sudo sysctl -a | grep max_map_count

[@excidium_]

cursed thumbnail

[@guiorgy]

Just noticed that because of you 😂

[@TheSolidSnakeOil]

Just the tip.

[@_Lumiere_]

I use arch btw 😏

[@danirde]

Awesome thumbnail!

[@BrodieRobertson]

I honestly did not notice it until it was pointed out to me, I thought I was on the internet too much, turns out I'm just the tip

[@OhhCrapGuy]

Gentoo probably won't actually change it by default, they'll just add it to the handbook, that's kind of their thing

[@NHOrus]

Steam page on Wiki

[@uiyx4379]

and i wouldn't want it any other way

[@contentnation]

There are packages that add own (higher) values like elasticsearch (a kind of database) during install, so it's done one a need-to-use case already.

[@zenn_desu]

I'll see about adding that. thanks for the suggestion :)

[@tacokoneko]

@@contentnation therefore the gentoo steam-overlay repo's steam-launcher package should also add its own sysctl.d line since steam is the official launcher for many of the proprietary games that are affected?

[@skelebro9999]

Brodie single handedly holding Arch Linux by one finger is crazy.

[@laughingvampire7555]

holding or impaling?

[@nou712]

@@laughingvampire7555 Penetrating

[@meteor4716]

​@@laughingvampire7555More like penetrating...

[@bibbediboo]

single fingeredly

[@BunnyKhatri-pd8zm]

You are the guy

[@xdzzz0]

This was one of those Arch updates where it was like: "oh cool... downloaded more RAM. Nice."

[@RinLovesYou]

>update filesystem >max_map_count did not change >poke around other sysctl.d folders (/etc/sysctl.d) >find Ryujinx config >it sets the max_map_count slightly *lower* than default >deleted forever. >profit

[@MarvinRB3]

I agree that high map counts indicate a problem, but having a hard limit is turning a low disruption potential problem into a high disruption actual problem. Maybe there should be a soft-limit value that provides warnings for applications with high map counts?

[@SIackware]

It sure has been exciting to witness gaming on Linux gradually getting better and better over the past few years

[@MichaelDeHaven]

It's been awesome. It has allowed me to walk away from Windows, as its become increasingly more annoying. That and helpful people like Brodie, the people here, and elsewhere.

[@AlucardNoir]

When I moved full-time to linx 5 years ago I was certain my gaming days would be behind me. I was wrong.

[@Stay_away_from_my_swamp_water]

Now it's better than on windows.

[@stevengrimes371]

stability is far more important then a slight increase in memory usages in most cases. yes, it should be changed.

[@danielton9577]

Nah, you were right the first time. If every distro is changing the default to something else, and they all agree on what the new default should be, then that default should be reconsidered upstream. This "You're holding it wrong!" style reply from David is unhelpful, to say the least. I'm glad distros are changing it anyway,.

[@jeslinmx22]

Counterpoint: Linux is not just desktops and gaming, there's a massive server and enterprise segment too. I suspect part of the reluctance to change the default is because it could potentially (somehow) cause instability in an enterprise system that no one wants to fix, ever, or that it would degrade performance on servers, containers, cloud whatevers. Sure, from the perspective of the Linux desktop user, it's a "why shouldn't we fix this issue that affects most gamers on Linux with no side effects, just because it may cause a 0.3% performance loss on some servers?", but from the maintainers' view, it may be a "we should not make this change that introduces a regression into the Linux server segment because Red Hat and Canonical keep the lights on". That's another reason why it differs from the KDE double-click thing. KDE is a desktop environment, so changing the desktop defaults to match desktop users' expectations makes sense. Changing the kernel defaults to match the desktop users' expectations should be a job of the desktop distro maintainers, not the kernel maintainers.

[@dunkelklinge1]

I have set this value to 1024*1024 and noticed some improvement in Helldivers 2. So change it folks! It's free performance!

[@snowwsquire]

u can also say 2^20

[@mx338]

This is why I am Fedora gang, the developers know their stuff.

[@MiguelGonzález-k5p]

fedora gang where we at

[@BrodieRobertson]

Never forget when they switched to Wayland by default on Workstation

[@SecretAgentBartFargo]

@@BrodieRobertson It was inevitable

[@thingsiplay]

Fedora is more bleeding edge than Arch. :D

[@SecretAgentBartFargo]

@@thingsiplay Nah

[@DryPaperHammerBro]

Oh, cool, Arch's recently made it 1MiB out of the box! (No, I didn't fuck up writing a megabyte, that's how you shorten mebibyte)

[@thingsiplay]

Overwatch 2 Last year when I played Overwatch 2 (I'm a big fan of the firs game...) I had couple of times game crash after some time playing and suspected not having enough memory. Even though I had some room left with the 16gb. Might this have been the issue? We'll never know, because I'm on new hardware and don't play the game anymore. But I would like to think this being the issue.

[@UKprl]

As far I understand it since the advent of virtual memory and the 64-bit address space, modern applications expect a malloc never to fail. It's not so much that they assume unlimited memory, but that they can memory map (large) files, and leave it to the memory management / page fault mechanism to page their data in/out according to the demands of the current process. Some databases such as MongoDB tend to allocate virtual memory in this fashion though behaviour also depends on how well a data consuming application is written on whether it really needs to (say) load a whole collection to only show the first page of results from a query.

[@АнтонНиколаев-ь1с]

interesting thought. Thank you

[@Oktokolo]

Not sure if David Hildenbrand is just trolling or actually living in an ivory tower. It should be obvious that games made for Windows won't change because the Linux kernel is more finnicky about memory allocation. If you want people to use Linux on the desktop, shit like this has to change. There might be a future where Linux can dictate the standard for software development. And on the server or in embedded that might actually already be the case. But for now, Windows rules the desktop market and Linux has to be compatible to it rather than the other way around. Or gamers will just keep using Windows - and most of them will prefer using Windows for everything else too.

[@Cataclym]

openSUSE already changed it

[@leevi6026]

Yeah, in openSUSE Tumbleweed it has been changed already at least before the end of the September 2023.

[@b1rds_arent_real]

I've changed it manually about a year ago for MongoDB. It has also been a thing Redis complained about, so I'd say it's a somewhat common problem. Nice to see the default change.

[@merthyr1831]

weird how a kernel dev just ignores that server databases (aka linux's main market) all run into this issue

[@BrodieRobertson]

The e-mail focused on the gaming implications, maybe it would have been received differently if it focused on those

[@Torbjorn.Lindgren]

@@merthyr1831 It's not "all server databases", AFAIK among databases it's pretty much specific to MongoDB - as the kernel developer points out it's generally not the most efficient way of doing it (more cpu and memory overhead), with the rest using conventional memory management that will never hit this (you could set it to a 1000 and they'd not care). Just as it's an issue with a few very specific games out of probably tens of thousands. There's probably some deep architectural reason why MongDB just hasn't "fixed" it on their end - if I'd have to guess it might be "a decision made early on for a very small program, and is now deeply embedded everywhere in the code". Because that's often how weird things like this stays - and is why I think it DOES makes sense to increase it to 1M despite thinking he developer has a the valid point.

[@derstreber2]

@@Torbjorn.Lindgren On the other hand, this can only go so far. If developers keep writing programs that waste memory mappings, this fix won't last long before people will be screaming to increase the count again. The problem is we have a maximum count for a reason, there are trade offs. This will effect all programs, including those that are written to manage memory correctly.

[@Rcomian]

​@@BrodieRobertsonmaybe they should watch your video. honestly it's a very techy thing to see, where an end user makes a request based on real world experience, and the dev refuses the change, making a whole bunch of very real, very true technical arguments that completely miss the point.

[@LittleD0minis]

increasing vm_max_map_count helps very much with Cyberpunk also.

[@mmstick]

This value was increased in Pop!_OS on Apr 26, 2023.

[@dermachedjamel8970]

vm.max_map_count = 2147483642 in Pop_os

[@yusefaslam9675]

that is why PopOS is amazing, u guys do amazing work

[@MiukuMac]

[@CilentLp]

Oh my god, I stopped playing Hogwards Legacy because the crashes were so severe and soft bricked my system. All other games run flawlessly. I'll try setting the value and hope there are no more problems afterwards. Thank you so much for pointing out the issue.

[@paulvincent1806]

I had crashes 50 % when I teleported in this game. Changing that value fixed the issue for me.

[@BrodieRobertson]

To be fair at launch the game was a buggy mess for tons of other reasons as well

[@CilentLp]

@@BrodieRobertson I can imagine, but I didn't play at launch. It's been maybe two months since I tried playing the game, so I hope most of the other bugs have been fixed at some point.

[@hereticosjc]

I have issues with Diablo IV where it's becoming a stuttery mess. I couldn't play RayTracing High where in Windows I could. Was a stuttery mess. Medium was fine, now medium is acting like HIgh I'm hoping this will solve it. My mate linked me to this video because of the issue I'm seeing, and because CS2 is a joke.

[@MartynasNegreckis]

What's the status? Did it help?

[@matthewrease2376]

Is that why Payday 2 crashed after I spent an hour clearing out a bank... I don't think I've played since they happened lol.

[@BrodieRobertson]

Very possibly

[@michaellankford823]

As a DayZ player on linux, this is amazing. Now i can just play the game, instead of opening the terminal first freaking thing 😆

[@FagnerLuan]

Fun fact: the video has 1 2 : 3 4 in the length... It's something 🤷‍♂️ Edit: meh... It's just some bug on KZbin, on the app is 1234, on the Firefox mobile was 1234, until I changed to desktop mode, then now I see the 1233

[@puertoricanguy999]

That actually IS interesting! Nice one!

[@SecretAgentBartFargo]

12:33

[@DMSBrian24]

12:33 for me

[@Steerable6827]

12:33

[@aceae4210]

so from experience, what youtube does is ether round the second up or down depending where it is you can get the exact time in seconds from the "copy debug info" on the right click menu using that we can get that it's exactly 753.781 seconds equal to 12 mins and 33.781 seconds it's just that .781 part gets rounded up on mobile and thumbnail, and rounded down on the desktop video player (the round down basically removes the .781) (to find the exact time, right click on the video, click "copy debug info", then paste into a text editor. once you have done that do ctrl+f and find "vd" or "len" the value next to ether of them is the length of the video in seconds)

[@lukaskoll4873]

oh god the amount of times i've had to adjust this manually. changing this default will save millions of hours of pointless work

[@bes12000]

Would be nice if Star Citizen worked on Arch, it keeps failing at the anticheat part even with the anticheat patcher..if only the devs would actually utilize the Linux easy Anticheat SDk that Epic games has..

[@olnnn]

Counter strike 2 is a bit odd to bring since it has a native version now, running it via proton only lets you play locally unless you run the whole steam via wine - granted the native version it's own set of other performance issues - for all their linux work valve don't seem to be doing a lot to make their own top game work well on linux..

[@stevehorne5536]

Everyone knows that when developers do something a bit bad, users must be punished. The less expert the user, the more severe the punishment.

[@TheSolidSnakeOil]

Maybe this is why BG3 stopped crashing every 10 minutes.

[@MrAlanCristhian]

Changing that value is one of the first thing that i do after installing a distro.

[@IAmPattycakes]

I just checked on a fresh opensuse install, looks like they have the default set to 2^20 like Arch.

[@Redmage913]

ChimeraOS (therefore SteamPS) has been the most efficient way for me to have low-wattage, rock-solid 60fps for my games. Perfect for a mid-range, otherwise RX 480 4GB system. Not dumping that card till it’s dead. It’s water-cooled and doesn’t get above 50 on a 90mm CPU AIO :P

[@notimportant7682]

Does anybody know how significant of performance cost we're talking about for the laptop users out here? I want to know if I should be bothered to change it back as I don't play any of the listed games.

[@MisterZig0]

From what I can tell each process will be able to allocate more sections of memory than before but I'm not sure if it immediately takes up more ram or only when required.

[@notimportant7682]

@@MisterZig0 It seems to me, from the reading I ended up doing that the real worry is that a higher number will allow developers to create worse software that still manages to run and not that existing software will run worse.

[@zeckma]

Just changed the value for my system, didn't know it was even a thing. I'm writing a book that can benefit from this change so I'll include it when it is time to. Thanks Brodie for basically being the Linux news for me lol

[@jinujonn]

Out of curiosity, how do you change the value?

[@zeckma]

@jinujonn All of this I did as root: mkdir /etc/sysctl.d cat >> /etc/sysctl.d/80-gamecompat.conf

[@Atanalcar]

Huh, I have 16777216. Why it's that high I don't know, must have changed it once upon a rime then forgot all about it.

[@blinking_dodo]

vm.max_map_count = 65530 on my Ubuntu Windows laptop. I have my Linux mint Desktop currently off, so i can't check that one.

[@daviusikse1486]

Merged for ubuntu 24.04 too and future Linux Mint version 😊

[@AQDuck]

I knew what value it was without remembering the name of it. Caused so many crashes with Hogwarts Legacy.

[@itjustcrashed]

Brodie, how did Arch Linux not crumble from being held on your finger? You know your arch setup is one bad package away from summoning the BSD users to your door! Edit: I use Mac so I'm a bsd user :ohsh!t:

[@kztuptuo7076]

Suse tumbleweed alredy changed this value I do not know about leap

[@brolinofvandar]

I'm running Leap 15.5 and I just checked. It's still at the default. If tumbleweed has changed, I'm guessing that will eventually make its way to Leap.

[@gorrumKnight]

On CachyOS and it is set to 1048576.

[@Problematist]

The Steam Deck still uses a map count of 2 billion. I think Arch and Ubuntu have copied Fedora instead.

[@ghostblackout1]

Holding arch Linux with a single finger is insane and it's the Chad move

[@thisnthat3530]

Continuing to use the small default value seems a bit like continuing to use 512 byte sectors as storage devices became millions of times larger.

[@Mallchad]

From the perspective of somebody who tinkers frequently in C++ and Linux, I unerstand roughly what VMAs are and what kind of app goes over the default limit for it. But _I have no idea what actually causes an allocation of 1 "arena" and how I would measure it, which is kind of a problem. Particularly with things like wine where they have no concern at all for what a VMA is because of the windows system/memory model

[@peterjansen4826]

A great change which should have happened years earlier. I push back against this "double-click is better", I agree with upstream in this regard. DE's (KDE) which choose to make double-click the default do not do that because they think that it is better, they do that because they know that Windows-users are used to it. From the perspective of functionality single-click is better but if you are not used to that then it is sensible that you prefer double-click.

[@mercuriete]

The default is correct. The problem here is Linux is not meant for desktop but for servers instead. The majority of users are sysadmins/devops running webapps. Before you change the default, distros oriented to play games should be the majority. I think conservative default and the distros modifiying downstream is the right way. BTW I use Gentoo. And in Gentoo the user is a sysadmin so its the default. Gentoo have documented this issue on the Steam troubleshooting wiki.

[@alphacraft9658]

Even the new value on Fedora seemingly wasn't enough for me. The Finals, which finally works, crashed mid-game and I stumbled upon this and raised that value even higher. Now it seems to work without problems.

[@Lampe2020]

Is that maybe the problem why Minecraft Legends crashes on almost all of my computers on Linux but not on the same machine on Window$? But interestingly, on my newest PC it works on Linux.

[@Uchiha_Madara1224]

8:20 hey Broady unreleated to your video how did you enable Autoscrolling (middle click ) on brave, are you using flatpak/native package on wayland/x11 ? if using flatpak + wayland how to enable ??

[@denizdezigner]

The next step should be to enable a click via tap on a touchpad by default.

[@skilletpan5674]

In the initial system installation app there should be an option for 'I play emulated/non native games' and it will just set this for the user. That would go a long way towards getting linux to be more user friendly.

[@MisterZig0]

That would be distro specific again though.

[@SecretAgentBartFargo]

I was very pleased to see that my Arch has automatically enabled that by default. Arch is the proper Linux experience.

[@hullukana214]

Same with my NixOs.

[@RandomGeometryDashStuff]

10:50 /proc/sys/vm/max_map_count is 1048576 for me (opensuse tumbleweed)

[@bes12000]

Also, the command to check it doesn't work, but I assume it's already set as im on Garuda linux which is a gaming version of Arch.

[@BrodieRobertson]

It should that's what I ran on Arch

[@leevi6026]

I think the problem is you need to either run it as root user or with sudo, for some reason ​@BrodieRobertson didn't specify that. *edit*: Seems like in Arch it doesn't need to be run as root, but at least in openSUSE and Debian it has to be.

[@iFlxy]

Archussy

[@Mishaye]

Already increased on Arch-based CachyOS. I believe it got changed sometime last year.

[@DePhoegonIsle]

... The arguments about windows 'optimized' games using alot of memory mappings, doing it wrong for the linux way of things..... is .... backwards thinking. Sure it's obvious a lot of windows games aren't as optimized as they should be, but if windows approach is centered on size limits for memory mapping & not the count of memory maps.... than optimizations for windows, file transfer speeds, and timings of hardware, would never align with the design process of linux memory mapping limits by count instead of size. I propose that it's linux who is doing it wrong, and that's not even addressing naturally insanely memory heavy things like databases & some video editors. Look Iget the ultra limted design, and that a program shouldn't be hitting 20-60k+ of mappings at a time for any normal desktop... but if the reason you're not doing it is performance, isn't that like outlawing being stupid because it ends up hurting? What's odd is linux is 'do what you want with your system' and .... some how windows has a better sense of limits when it comes to technical aspects. If I was building a game for memory management for a system that was built around size of the mappings, and focused on min/maxing assets for dynamic loading into & out of memory of the system & GPU(s) from the System storage. I don't think I would give two shits about the count of mappings, with modern day systems and focus to stack it where the least amount of other stuff in the game/application was going on at the same time as well.

[@brockdaniel8845]

Dolby Atmos on Arch when ?

[@aribowell]

on my Debian system it is vm.max_map_count = 2147483642 which seems to be a default, or it's the liquorix kernel or someone else sets it... However there is no sysctl config file with that value.

[@arazilsongweaver]

I hate it when designers trot out the old "you're holding it wrong" chestnut when justifying their besieged design choices. If the entire world is changing or ignoring your design choices, it's probably time to reconsider those design choices.

[@donciclon]

Already default in NixOS

[@thekennethofoz3594]

I guess for some people this might matter. Not for me. I clicked, because no clues given in the title about who might benefit.

[@thingsiplay]

Question: Why is it not for you? What are the downsides

[@Dan01-01]

Funny coincidence. I had come across this value about a week ago, and if i recall correctly, Fedora, the distro i use, already has the value that arch changed to. I didnt think this would be something to come up in the near future

[@No-mq5lw]

How does one game out of many screw up memory management on one of the most common game engines out there? Utterly bizarre

[@keyboard_g]

Super click bait title and thumbnail.

[@jitsuzai5873]

I think this was an issue on launch of Hogwarts Legacy. It worked fine on the Steam deck but it crashed on most desktops while loading a new area and was fixed by one command ☺️👍 I never had issue otherwise.

[@merthyr1831]

Someone tell David about not breaking userspace

[@PredatoryQQmber]

9:30 What a perfect example of living in a bubble. Sh|7ty Window$ apps and consoles from 2005 are not going to be 'fixed' for some turbo-nerd for whom the idea of a good time is hyper-optimizing assembler code in kernel.

[@ronanru]

I remember having to set this to play Hogwarts Legacy. Happy it's the default now.

[@PerikiyoXD]

Just swapped to Arch Linux, and it was set to 1048576 by default! Incredible. Had to issue this command so much using virtual machines when using Laravel Homestead, guess why...

[@WyvernDotRed]

This reminds me of the similar vm.swappiness variable often being set much higher than seems reasonable. To my understanding the high default is for sustained performance of 24/7 servers. But on home systems, lowering it to around 10 makes the system more responsive by reducing storage IO for unneeded swap usage. The exception being systems that use ZRAM, like mine, as the compressed part is considered as swap. vm.max_map_count is set to 1048576 on my distro, Garuda Linux. Though this distro is layered on top of Arch and I just updated it, so it might have pulled in this change. Or it did change it already, this distro does make this sort of tweaks more.

[@GregChabala]

I agree with David Hildenbrand's take, and would suggest publicly shaming MongoDB and the few games mentioned for being sloppy with their map usage. Of course, an easy workaround exists, and I doubt the game developers would even notice (game devs are the worst developers, prove me wrong).

[@qbasicmichael]

I don't think a bunch of calls to malloc should necessarily mean a lot of separate mappings. malloc should be allocating from the heap, which can allocate numerous chunks within a larger mapping. malloc should be using HeapAlloc, and mmap is comparable to VirtualAlloc. Is wine's HeapAlloc misusing VirtualAlloc? Edit: or, are those handful of games doing a bunch of separate VirtualAlloc()s directly?

[@alphaomega154]

outside the computer topic, thats the same problem the world have. like what you perceived it, that if something you established have many people around the world would have to do many "localized" FIXES and "modification" that shows what you established is wrong. im talking about the economy system and money/banking systems that have been established by the western world. if everybody in the world who practice that CONSTANTLY must do so many micro fixes and changes as they go with it, that shows it is a PROBLEM and the base "default" should be changed. while my habit of "editing" my comment in youtube is more like this: i constantly edited my texts in youtube is to check if google isnt deleting my comment. not because i think it is wrong. okay maybe some grammar and spelling edits.

[@matthewhelsley2840]

This is a rotten bandaid. Hardly a "solution". Ask yourself why the kernel imposes a limit on the number of mappings in the first place.

[@X8551516]

Thanks Brodie, anyone know if this will do anything for Mod Organizer 2 working through wine or is that more of a permissions/other type of issue? I know it'll work on first launch after installing, but any subsequent runs will result in being spammed with an error message. I know there's a Linux script that'll install it, but it only works on a per-game basis of officially supported games.

[@michaelutech4786]

"The value doesn't make any sense with modern software" - That's not how I understood the response on the kernel mailing list. For all software but games and maybe certain databases, exceeding the limit is an indicator for something akin to a memory leak (a wrong mm handling strategy as I understood it). I never once ran into that issue over a period of decades. It's not a zero cost change (according to David). Even if the cost is negligible. If the kernel default is changed, that would only encourage "bad practices", e.g. inviting modern software to become badly designed software. In my opinion, the proper way to handle this is to let software that legitimately requires a higher value to raise it as part of their post-install hooks on install. That would allow the software to run without the need of manual configuration by the user. That configuration item could even be its own package (just installing a configuration item in /etc/sysctl.d) on which needy software depends. Like this, there would be no negative impact at all and software would document a dependency on a particular system configuration through a package dependency.

[@MetalPhantom1984]

THE FINALS were crashing on me until I raised the number and generally haven't crashed since then.

[@zetrel]

I had high hopes that this would solve the L4D2 crashfest, however it still happens, and only on Linux (any distro). It's mindbogling how Valve can't fix a bug that has been persistent for half a decade.

[@ltxr9973]

When I was reading the title I was thinking of the filehandle limit or the connection limit but I guess there's another one. Never had to mess with any of these on a non-server but good to know. Bit suprised about Counter Strike 2 of all games. MongoDB isn't suprising at all, seen some wild things happening with MongoDB. Love my good old postgres.

[@davidg2861]

I wonder if someone with low power device knowledge can addreess what the negative impacts on kernel/process mem use might be. There must be some ram allocated for the table, after all. If the kernel allocates an extra 64meg of ram, (or each process?} or something like that, then while that might not matter much for a gaming machine with multiple gigabytes of ram, it's going to hurt on something with 512Mb of ram in total.

[@ceplma]

OpenSUSE has it as well already, not sure since when (yes, for us the issue was SAP R/3, not videogames).

[@zxuiji]

Didn't even have the mentioned file, was the default 0xFFFFu value switched to the 0x100000u value instead

[@fanshaw]

Change the default, log when going above 64k?

[@hburke7799]

ah yes, we are slowly returning to the old Unix days where bad default values are the cause of issues as hardware and use-cases grow.

[@shanzakir-s4z]

cs2 was a nightmare when I played it on my arch linux a week ago. performance was cut down half compare to my windows boot.

[@SB-qm5wg]

I have nightmares about Oracle and ram config changes. Some of you might of lived through those days

[@konstaNa]

Funny that I changed this value just last week (have been fixing some Steam related stuff)

[@JasonMcGaw]

vm.max_map_count = 65530 on an updated Void Linux as of this comment.

[@xpusostomos]

Erm... if there's no downside, why wouldn't you set it to a billion zillion?

[@xard64]

Somehow I already know what variable this video was going to be about even before watching it.

[@guyblack9729]

brodie what are you doing to that arch linux logo?

[@frogmcribbit8778]

It's quite rare to see ArchLinux changing the defaults, considering how they're usually adamant on letting the user configurating their stuff themselves to suits their need and just leave the information in the documentation.

[@andljoy]

1:47 god is that what the internet looks like in 2024 without an adblocker ?

[@xXRealXx]

It can be even worse

[@nocte_dieque]

advertiser inserts on desktop are… modest, relative to the mobile webpages. on average it’s so much worse

[@AndersHass]

Interesting Valve’s own game is pushing this limit up. I dunno if you could just make a setting to lower it if you for some reason needed the memory usage to be lower. Otherwise some distros are targeting low end hardware which can then have this set to lower value.

[@Sypaka]

Are you saying my Windows games stutter in Proton because of this stupid number? Ok, wow..

[@morbidsoy]

cant wait for luke smith to come back and slam these changes saying "its the work of the devil"

[@thetj8243]

OK, as I am on arch it's already done, but I checked it anyways :)

[@johanb.7869]

Change this value only if you're a gamer? I don't game, so no need to change the value?