Pkill9 <pki...@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.
