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authorJian-Hong Pan <jhp@endlessos.org>2022-12-12 15:21:23 +0800
committerFlorian Müllner <fmuellner@gnome.org>2023-02-13 17:17:32 +0100
commit4aedf863537dac29057b1ba75218e0aa7baed2f8 (patch)
tree8ff6e0874d6ab8804572e342155a20009e61d158
parent06fd932dd9bbc30f30cc141275e908dd7060f20c (diff)
downloadgnome-shell-4aedf863537dac29057b1ba75218e0aa7baed2f8.tar.gz
data: Lower down gnome-shell process' OOM score
When GNOME shell runs on a less memory system (for example 3 GB RAM), it is usually killed by the kernel OOM-killer easily. Because, it has a higher OOM score. However, GNOME desktop environment cannot do anything when the GNOME shell is killed. This commit adjusts and lowers down gnome-shell process' OOM score to avoid being killed by the kernel OOM-killer too early. In other words, sacrifices other processes first. Part-of: <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/2582> (cherry picked from commit 09c8fb541484f34a496809bc1c5708c90e9cb65c)
-rw-r--r--data/org.gnome.Shell@wayland.service.in3
-rw-r--r--data/org.gnome.Shell@x11.service.in3
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/data/org.gnome.Shell@wayland.service.in b/data/org.gnome.Shell@wayland.service.in
index 38887eb19..76d5ccb1b 100644
--- a/data/org.gnome.Shell@wayland.service.in
+++ b/data/org.gnome.Shell@wayland.service.in
@@ -32,3 +32,6 @@ ExecStopPost=-/bin/sh -c 'test "$SERVICE_RESULT" != "exec-condition" && systemct
Restart=no
# Kill any stubborn child processes after this long
TimeoutStopSec=5
+
+# Lower down gnome-shell's OOM score to avoid being killed by OOM-killer too early
+OOMScoreAdjust=-1000
diff --git a/data/org.gnome.Shell@x11.service.in b/data/org.gnome.Shell@x11.service.in
index 7310f6608..078d87a3c 100644
--- a/data/org.gnome.Shell@x11.service.in
+++ b/data/org.gnome.Shell@x11.service.in
@@ -37,3 +37,6 @@ Restart=always
RestartSec=0ms
# Kill any stubborn child processes after this long
TimeoutStopSec=5
+
+# Lower down gnome-shell's OOM score to avoid being killed by OOM-killer too early
+OOMScoreAdjust=-1000