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List:       fedora-devel-list
Subject:    Re: Enable EarlyOOM on Fedora KDE - Fedora 33 Self-Contained Change proposal
From:       Michael Catanzaro <mcatanzaro () gnome ! org>
Date:       2020-07-20 14:40:31
Message-ID: JFVRDQ.4HDXYZUH5LPJ1 () posteo ! net
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On Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 10:55 am, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler@chello.at> 
wrote:
> That said, I do not see how the EarlyOOM heuristic, which allows, 
> depending
> on the exact settings, something like 80-90% of swap to be used IN 
> ADDITION
> to 90+% RAM (and will only start doing anything if BOTH RAM and swap 
> are
> full) can prevent thrashing in any reliable way.

Well you're right: on its own, earlyoom is unlikely to save you from 
thrashing if you have swap on disk. This is really designed to work 
well in combination with zram, and best with Benjamin's resource 
protection work as well. So please consider it alongside the other work.

Michael

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