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Re: Add earlyoom service to %desktop-services?
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jbranso |
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Re: Add earlyoom service to %desktop-services? |
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Mon, 17 Oct 2022 22:17:27 +0000 |
October 17, 2022 7:24 AM, "Pkill9" <pkill9@runbox.com> wrote:
> I think that the earlyoom service is a necessity for a Guix system
> desktop.
>
> For those who don't know what it does, EarlyOOM (early out-of-memory)
> is a daemon that kills applications when the amount of memory available
> falls below a certain percentage of the maximum, by default 10%. There
> is already an OOM killer in the kernel, but it's too lax and
> applications that consume too much memory can cause the system to
> freeze.
>
> I've used this for a while and many times it has kicked in and works
> well for my laptop. I think adding it to the default desktop services
> will give Guix System on desktop greater stability, which would
> encourage adoption of Guix System on the desktop
>
> What do you, reader, think?
+1
Applications to kill: icecat, chromium, firefox, chromium, blender,
etc.
I would recommend that we do include "firefox" and "chromium" as
applications that we would kill. I use nongnu for firefox, and
I bet there are others that use stock chromium or things like it.
Just me 2 cents.
Joshua