Idle Armada
Steam News 15 January 20251y ago

0.19.7.6 - Better Freeze Workaround To Reduce RAM Usage

This patch simply uses a better workaround for the freeze issue. Instead of Idle Armada delaying the garbage collector as much as possible (which increased memory usage), we found a specific feature of the go runtime to…

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changedThis patch simply uses a better workaround for the freeze issue. Instead of Idle Armada delaying the garbage collector as much as possible (which increased memory usage), we found a specific feature of the go runtime to disable to prevent the GC from freezing. This may be a bug in either steam or in go, but in the meantime this better workaround was suggested in this go runtime issue: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/71242
  • This patch simply uses a better workaround for the freeze issue. Instead of Idle Armada delaying the garbage collector as much as possible (which increased memory usage), we found a specific feature of the go runtime to disable to prevent the GC from freezing. This may be a bug in either steam or in go, but in the meantime this better workaround was suggested in this go runtime issue: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/71242

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