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From: Pkill9 <pkill9@runbox.com>
To: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Add earlyoom service to %desktop-services?
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2022 12:23:30 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20221017122330.0aea0d40@runbox.com> (raw)

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?



             reply	other threads:[~2022-10-17 11:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-10-17 11:23 Pkill9 [this message]
2022-10-17 18:47 ` Add earlyoom service to %desktop-services? Csepp
2022-10-17 22:17 ` jbranso
2022-10-18 12:22   ` Maxim Cournoyer
2022-10-18 14:24 ` Attila Lendvai

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