On Fri, Jan 3, 2020 at 3:41 PM drago01 <drag...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Friday, January 3, 2020, Neal Gompa <ngomp...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On Fri, Jan 3, 2020 at 2:19 PM Ben Cotton <bcot...@redhat.com> wrote: >> > >> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/EnableEarlyoom >> > >> > == Summary == >> > Install earlyoom package, and enable it by default. This will cause >> > the kernel oomkiller to trigger sooner, but will not affect which >> > process it chooses to kill off. The idea is to recover from out of >> > memory situations sooner, rather than the typical complete system hang >> > in which the user has no other choice but to force power off. >> > >> >> I'd like to see this enabled on all Fedora variants by default. This >> seems to be generally useful for workstations and servers. > > > The idea might be the implementation is not. > Using a percentage to decide "almost out of memory" is going to hurt on > systems with large amounts of memory be it a 32gb desktop or a 2tb server. > You'd have plenty of memory left and it starts killing processes ...
I agree this is the most significant liability of the proposal right now. I mention it in: https://pagure.io/fedora-workstation/issue/119#comment-618480 And I will add this caveat to the proposal, because at the moment I think we need a satisfactory work around in order to proceed with enabling this feature. -- Chris Murphy _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
