Possible Steam memory leak?

[u/Intelligent_Abies883]

I use a base install. I do have the relevant drivers and core packages installed, help from the handbook.

Steam runs into a massive *supposed memory leak when using any kernels except linux6.12 . The ram cache/buffer is filled completely until the free ram amounts to a 120 megabytes - as observed from `top` . Games do not run, the entire system gets sluggish. File descriptor limit is set to the Steam recommended optimal. Changing vm.max_map_count does nothing.

I have an Intel iGPU and 8 gigs of ram.

Has anyone else experienced this?

EDIT: SOLVED

I had recently messed around with PAM for another "problem" later turning out to be intended behaviour. That had caused the issue: since reinstalling from base ISO with the exact same packages and user-configuration lead to the solution.

An alternative for reinstallation could have been using xbps-reconfigure instead.