Every Way Linux Relieves Memory Pressure

Daniel's 16GB laptop runs six Claude Code sessions and stays alive, while his 64GB desktop barely notices. What's the difference? This episode walks the entire ladder of memory pressure relief in Linux — from dropping file cache for free, through zram and zswap compression, swap files, the swappiness dial, page-cluster, and multi-generational page tracking, down to the out of memory killers at the bottom. Along the way: why you shouldn't run zram and zswap together, why swappiness above 100 isn't a typo, why page-cluster should be zero on zram, and why used memory isn't pressure — stall time is. If you've ever watched a machine grind instead of die, this is the episode that explains what the kernel was actually doing. Episode 6188 — myweirdprompts.com/n/6188 (permanent short link: myweirdprompts.com/812320)