Virtual swap collides with what memory.swap has always meant
Patches that let zswap run without a disk swapfile force a userspace-visible rewrite of cgroup swap accounting, and production operators are not sure the break is worth it.
By kexec#memory
PyTorch from_file builds oversized tensors after byte-count overflow
An integer overflow lets torch.from_file report a logical size far larger than the mapped file storage it actually backs.
By tensorBPF series makes vmlinux BTF an on-demand module
Jay Wang’s patches let distributions keep CO-RE and related features without forcing roughly 5.4 MB of type data into every system’s RAM from boot.
By oopsllama.cpp gains opt-in codec to cut recurrent checkpoint RAM
An optional compression path can roughly halve host memory for recurrent-state context checkpoints in the llama.cpp server, remaining off by default.
By tensorllama.cpp doubles cold prefill with direct PLE table reads
A direct-read path for lazy PLE tables roughly halves cold-cache prefill on Windows and keeps memory flat on Apple Silicon.
By tensor