Let systemd-oomd kill a runaway app instead of losing the session (#6445)
Nothing stood between "memory is tight" and "processes die at random": the kernel OOM killer only fires after an allocation has already failed, so a machine under pressure thrashes in reclaim until something breaks somewhere fatal — seen in practice as Hyprland taking SIGBUS mid-memcpy from a client shm pool that memory pressure was tearing down. Enable systemd-oomd, which keys on PSI stall time rather than free pages, and mark app.slice — and only app.slice — as its kill candidate. Hyprland runs in session.slice, so the compositor is structurally ineligible as a victim: oomd takes the app that caused the pressure and the session survives. Thresholds (50% stall over 20s, Fedora's desktop defaults) live in an oomd.conf.d drop-in; candidacy ships as a vendor drop-in under /usr/lib/systemd/user so existing users get it on package upgrade with no per-user seeding. New installs enable the daemon from enable-services.sh; a migration covers existing ones, restarting an already-running oomd so it doesn't keep stale thresholds until reboot. Deliberately not earlyoom: it triggers only when free RAM and free swap are both under threshold, so Omarchy's large, mostly-idle swapfiles keep it asleep through exactly this failure. Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -14,3 +14,7 @@ systemctl enable NetworkManager.service
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systemctl mask NetworkManager-wait-online.service
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systemctl enable power-profiles-daemon.service
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systemctl enable sddm.service
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# Kill one runaway app scope instead of letting reclaim thrashing take the
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# whole session down. [Install] pulls in systemd-oomd.socket via Also=, which
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# is what the user manager reports app.slice candidacy over.
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systemctl enable systemd-oomd.service
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