October 17, 2022 7:24 AM, "Pkill9" <pki...@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
