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		lionkor on June 5, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Debian's /tmpest in a teapot For me, if I run out of RAM, its because im running a task that should not fail - so the reasoning is that id rather have it take longer than fail.

pantalaimon on June 5, 2024 [–]

Bugs happen and memory leaks happen.

Also make -j is prone to run out of memory if you have many cores, I’d rather adjust the number of threads than have my system grind to a halt.

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