From 956267abb82174b94b8e8d19dd7b5de2037073d7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Profpatsch <mail@profpatsch.de>
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2021 10:31:16 +0100
Subject: machines/profpatsch/base-workstation: enable earlyoom

---
 machines/profpatsch/base-workstation.nix | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

(limited to 'machines/profpatsch/base-workstation.nix')

diff --git a/machines/profpatsch/base-workstation.nix b/machines/profpatsch/base-workstation.nix
index 42ed0311..dab68006 100644
--- a/machines/profpatsch/base-workstation.nix
+++ b/machines/profpatsch/base-workstation.nix
@@ -42,6 +42,14 @@ in {
     # Enables drivers, acpi, power management
     vuizvui.hardware.thinkpad.enable = true;
 
+    # the kernel OOM is not good enough without swap,
+    # and I don’t like swap. This kills the most hoggy
+    # processes when the system goes under a free space limit
+    services.earlyoom = {
+      enable = true;
+      freeMemThreshold = 5; # <5% free
+    };
+
     ###################
     # Graphical System
 
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