Nice to see more Linux distributions make changes to ensure the gaming experience is good. Arch Linux is now following Fedora and Ubuntu on upping the vm.max_map_count value.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/14214945

Bon bah la majo des distris ont le changement, c’est pas mal.
Les jeux bugues qui necessitent trop de ram tourneront bien sans avoir besoin de changer le kernel 😂

  • John Richard@lemmy.world
    13·
    7 months ago

    I kept waiting for them to do something like this.

    At this point Linux really needs a web tool (like Cockpit) that can show and manage these types of settings regardless of the distribution.

    • ruben
      21·
      7 months ago

      A web tool? Why would anyone install a web tool for controlling their kernel’s settings?

      • 30p87@feddit.de
        9·
        7 months ago

        Yes. It’s just that not even I - and probably very few people - knew about that setting. It’s not really the Distros job to optimize it for a specific task tho, except maybe a gaming focused fork like SteamOS.

        And I just noticed I could’ve just read the Arch Wiki article about Gaming, because point 5.1 talks about increasing vm.max_map_count lol.

    • TGhost [She/Her]@lemmy.mlOP
      5·
      7 months ago

      Yeah that would be enjoyable for sure.

      In the meantime, i used xanmodkernel or liquorix, they got updates ans the changes ago theses last news :-).

    • urbanxs@lemmy.ml
      1·
      7 months ago

      I might have the bandwidth to work on an open source tool. I am a bit out of context but are you saying the tool should allow for managing sysctl values? Genuine question and offer.

  • stormio@lemmy.caEnglish
    3·
    7 months ago

    The title mentions Ubuntu and Fedora, but I ran cat /proc/sys/vm/max_map_count on my openSUSE Tumbleweed system and it also uses 1048576.