Re: Add earlyoom service to %desktop-services?
another +1 from me, too: i've been greatly annoyed by this on my 8GB laptop. on 16GB i'm still occasionally screwed when i compile something large. i've spent quite some time trying to configure the kernel to no avail. -- • attila lendvai • PGP: 963F 5D5F 45C7 DFCD 0A39 -- “There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he's absolutely free to choose.” — William M. Bulger
Re: Add earlyoom service to %desktop-services?
Hi, jbra...@dismail.de writes: > October 17, 2022 7:24 AM, "Pkill9" wrote: > >> 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? > > +1 +1, but as I mentioned in #47717, I think we'd want to have D-Bus notifications sent by earlyoom to the desktop, so that a user knows what's going on (especially since the earlyoom logs suck, it's not even time stamped). > > Applications to kill: icecat, chromium, firefox, chromium, blender, > etc. > > I would recommend that we do include "firefox" and "chromium" as > applications that we would kill. I use nongnu for firefox, and > I bet there are others that use stock chromium or things like it. It's already configurable; I don't think Guix should go out of its way to add non-free items to its default earlyoom configuration. -- Thanks, Maxim
Re: Add earlyoom service to %desktop-services?
October 17, 2022 7:24 AM, "Pkill9" wrote: > 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? +1 Applications to kill: icecat, chromium, firefox, chromium, blender, etc. I would recommend that we do include "firefox" and "chromium" as applications that we would kill. I use nongnu for firefox, and I bet there are others that use stock chromium or things like it. Just me 2 cents. Joshua
Re: Add earlyoom service to %desktop-services?
Pkill9 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.
