Implement the --disable-dev-shm-usage flag

[Cray]

Steam eats enough ram on its own, we don't need a full extra gig thrown on top of that by random unnecessary stuff thrown into /dev/shm even though it's neither crucial nor required for operation.

Inefficient use is sloppy enough, but the shm usage is just pointless, and to boot it's buggy and ends up not freeing space properly, in several ways.

RAM is there to be used - by the user, for what the user chooses. Not to be gobbled by any greedy app subscribing to the idea as if theirs is the only app ever running.

[Mad Scientist]

Originally posted by Cray:

Steam eats enough ram on its own, we don't need a full extra gig thrown on top of that by random unnecessary stuff thrown into /dev/shm even though it's neither crucial nor required for operation.

Inefficient use is sloppy enough, but the shm usage is just pointless, and to boot it's buggy and ends up not freeing space properly, in several ways.

RAM is there to be used - by the user, for what the user chooses. Not to be gobbled by any greedy app subscribing to the idea as if theirs is the only app ever running.

The average client use is ~500mbs.
If you're reaching 1gb, which can be a single youtube tab, a few servers of discord, etc and that's "a lot", or otherwise an issue, the question becomes how much ram is installed and available after the os, other loaded apps, etc. 4gb and 8gb is not recommended.

[Crashed]

Originally posted by Mad Scientist:

Originally posted by Cray:

Steam eats enough ram on its own, we don't need a full extra gig thrown on top of that by random unnecessary stuff thrown into /dev/shm even though it's neither crucial nor required for operation.

Inefficient use is sloppy enough, but the shm usage is just pointless, and to boot it's buggy and ends up not freeing space properly, in several ways.

RAM is there to be used - by the user, for what the user chooses. Not to be gobbled by any greedy app subscribing to the idea as if theirs is the only app ever running.

The average client use is ~500mbs.
If you're reaching 1gb, which can be a single youtube tab, a few servers of discord, etc and that's "a lot", or otherwise an issue, the question becomes how much ram is installed and available after the os, other loaded apps, etc. 4gb and 8gb is not recommended.

Apparently they're talking about the Linux client. If the /dev/shm usage is not being freed under memory usage strain then yes that is a bug.