On 21.12.2020 17:28, Ben Cotton wrote:
Provide a better experience for Fedora users in out-of-memory (OOM)
situations by enabling systemd-oomd by default.
Earlyoom maintainer here. I think it's too early to switch to
systemd-oomd, because it was just merged to the systemd codebase and is
still an experimental feature.
In earlyoom we have a list of processes that cannot be killed (eg.
dnf/packagekit/etc.), so it is absolutely safe to use as a default
userspace OOM solution. We currently don't know anything about the
systemd-oomd safety for regular use on end user desktops. We can't even
test it on the current stable Fedora release.
That's why I think this change need to be postponed to Fedora 35 (opt-in
in F34 and default in F35).
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Sincerely,
Vitaly Zaitsev (vitaly(a)easycoding.org)