Admittedly I don't know what I'm doing here, but this should make
systemd-oomd kill things less often, which seems like the direction we
want to move towards, so let's try it.
https://pagure.io/fedora-workstation/issue/358
- Remove swap policy. Default amount of swap (8GB?) is a lot lower than
what we use internally with the swap policy. Which frequently leads to
GNOME getting killed
(e.g. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1941170, and other
BZs not linked here). Internally we use 0.5x-1x size of physical memory
for swap via swapfiles (this will be documented in systemd upstream).
In simple cases of using more memory than is available (but without
memory pressure), the Kernel OOM killer can handle killing the
offending process.
- Expand the memory pressure policy to system.slice, user-.slice, and
all user owned slices. Support for ManagedOOM*= on user services was
added in https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/20690 which allows
us to be more fine grained on the pressure monitoring at the user
level. In addition to the system.slice and user-.slice PSI monitoring
this should result in a better systemd-oomd experience for desktop
systems.
Michael Catanzaro
Anita Zhang