Re: Add earlyoom service to %desktop-services?

[jbranso]

October 17, 2022 7:24 AM, "Pkill9" <pkill9@runbox.com> 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