To complete the list of products: In addition to games, this change is also useful for users of Elasticsearch and/or Opensearch and Apache Lucene/Solr on large clusters.
If you e.g. start Elasticsearch without a large enough vm.max_map_count, it will print a log message to raise it and exit.
My personal opinion: Actually the game issues described here should better be fixed in Steam's launcher when starting such a game (or in Wine). The downstream software should better ask the user to raise the value upon starting.
To complete the list of products: In addition to games, this change is also useful for users of Elasticsearch and/or Opensearch and Apache Lucene/Solr on large clusters.
Elasticsearch also suggests raising the value, although not so high: https:/ /www.elastic. co/guide/ en/elasticsearc h/reference/ current/ vm-max- map-count. html /opensearch. org/docs/ latest/ install- and-configure/ install- opensearch/ index/# important- settings /solr.apache. org/guide/ solr/latest/ deployment- guide/taking- solr-to- production. html
Opensearch: https:/
Apache Solr: https:/
If you e.g. start Elasticsearch without a large enough vm.max_map_count, it will print a log message to raise it and exit.
My personal opinion: Actually the game issues described here should better be fixed in Steam's launcher when starting such a game (or in Wine). The downstream software should better ask the user to raise the value upon starting.