On Sat, Jan 4, 2020 at 11:20 AM John M. Harris Jr <joh...@splentity.com> wrote: > > On Saturday, January 4, 2020 11:16:24 AM MST Michael Catanzaro wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 3, 2020 at 5:52 pm, John M. Harris Jr > > <joh...@splentity.com> wrote: > > > > > In that case, I'd suggest waiting the 15 minutes, and then not > > > bogging down > > > your system that badly the next time. This is, really, the best > > > option. > > > > > > I'm going to suggest you stop replying in this thread if you're not > > interested in responding with productive comments. > > > > The user experience requirement here is "desktop should not hang for 15 > > minutes when under memory pressure." Your comment indicates that it > > *should* hang, presumably to punish users for using too much memory. > > This is so absurd that I don't think you're engaging in good-faith > > discussion anymore. > > Whether or not it should or should not is irrelevant. I don't see much of an > alternative than what seems to be a "hang", honestly. It has nothing to do > with something to "punish" users, it's to get the system to a state where you > can `sync` and reboot.
The point of this feature proposal is precisely to get the system into a state where they can save their work and do a proper reboot. It's safer, less esoteric, and more reliable than sysrq+b. It cannot become a user's burden to know the kernel is still doing something, when there's zero feedback and zero control. When will the system recover on its own? An hour? A day? A week? I can tell you for sure in my test case, it was consistently stuck for > 30 minutes. I let it go that long, many times, only to demonstrate it's not a temporary hang, and users are acting rationally to force power off. -- 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
