Memory overflow in linux

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Megail wrote:

Hi there,

I installed Steam on Ubuntu 22.04 and launched POE through it. The game works well, but memory is constantly flowing. I have 16 gigabytes and after 2 hours of playing it crashes due to lack of memory. How can I solve this problem? I can't use the swap file because I have an SSD.

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why do a SSD prevents you from using a swap file ?
I have an SSD and uses a swap file without problems......

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Megail wrote:

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why do a SSD prevents you from using a swap file ?
I have an SSD and uses a swap file without problems......

I'm not sure, but I think it's a bad idea. Details - https://www.reddit.com/r/debian/comments/lthoah/is_it_ok_to_me_making_a_swap_partition_on_an_ssd/

I just checked and I have a swap file. 2GB. Apparently this is not enough..

$ free -h
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 15Gi 2,0Gi 6,3Gi 791Mi 7,0Gi 12Gi
Swap: 2,0Gi 7,0Mi 2,0Gi

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This was an issue with Gen1 of SSD's. It isn't a problem anymore.

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Megail wrote:

I agree. Of course I can enlarge the swap file. But it's not normal that the game requires so much memory. The system requirements say something completely different.

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The PoE client will use ALL the memory it can get for cache preloads.
You can reduce that a little by setting texture to Medium and Sound channel to low.

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Megail wrote:

I've already setup this.

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HanSoloDK wrote:

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Megail wrote:

I agree. Of course I can enlarge the swap file. But it's not normal that the game requires so much memory. The system requirements say something completely different.

The PoE client will use ALL the memory it can get for cache preloads.
You can reduce that a little by setting texture to Medium and Sound channel to low.

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Zrevnur wrote:

Just checked - on my (Ubuntu 22.04, non-Steam) system PoE uses just ~5.3G memory after playing a bit. Based on 'top' output. If for most players it uses more this could be related to my "asset loading times" in my mouse click bug thread...