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earlyoom.default: set prefer and avoid list #274

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@yangfl yangfl commented Jun 16, 2022

Stolen from Fedora, killing these programs will easily mess up your desktop
environment.

Source: https://pagure.io/fedora-workstation/issue/119
Downstream issue: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1012870

Stolen from Fedora, killing these programs will easily mess up your desktop
environment.

Source: https://pagure.io/fedora-workstation/issue/119
Downstream issue: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1012870
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I have commented on the Debian ticket (does it take a while to show up or did it eat my email?):

earlyoom author here.

I have never seen dbus-daemon use more memory than firefox.
Is there an unfixed memory leak in the Debian version of dbus-deamon?

@rfjakob rfjakob closed this in 42860d6 Nov 12, 2022
rfjakob added a commit that referenced this pull request Feb 5, 2023
Shmem/tmpfs may block a large part of RAM. This memory cannot be freed
by killing processes. Before this change, we could get into a
situation where earlyoom kills *every* process, but still cannot
achieve the desired MemAvailablePercent.

Fixes: #274
Fixes: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1012870
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