Hi,

Martin Steigerwald writes:

> Hi!
>
> You cannot make this up, can you?
>
> Bug 2119518 - GNOME being OOM killed during basic use on VM with 2G of
> RAM
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2119518

Reading through the bug report it looks a lot like someone got their
maths wrong. I mean using a few billion % of memory and uptimes well
over two centuries ...

> It still seems to be that people think adding complexity comes without
> risk of malfunction.
>
> oomd may make sense in certain cloud based workloads, maybe, just maybe.
> However… on a desktop? You are frigging kidding me, aren't you?

Just ran `apt search oomd` on a Daedalus machine. It's there alright,
both oomd and systemd-oomd. Both are installable (based on an `apt
install --dry-run` of either) but nothing seems to reverse depend on it.
BTW, systemd-oomd does not depend on oomd ...

> Thank you for Devuan! Thank you for some sanity.
>
> And yeah, it appears that with Debian oomd is not installed as standard
> so far, but if its in Fedora, it may come with Debian at some point in
> time. Or not, after their recent experiences in Fedora :) Maybe people
> can still learn.

--
Olaf Meeuwissen