Re: Add earlyoom service to %desktop-services?

[Csepp <raingloom@riseup.net>]

Pkill9 <pkill9@runbox.com> writes:

> 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?

Good idea, iff it works on i686.  Last time I checked it wasn't
building, or rather the docs weren't.  That's why I can't use it on my
netbook, which needs it the most.