Re: Enable EarlyOOM on Fedora KDE - Fedora 33 Self-Contained Change proposal

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On Saturday, July 11, 2020 2:36:04 PM MST Neal Gompa wrote:
> There's a difference between half-baked and a roadmap of incremental
> improvement. This Change is an example of the latter. If anything,
> your fanciful and speculative conjecture has done only harm for your
> credibility. You continue to attack and lambast every change proposed
> for the past few cycles,

On the contrary, I've only been against Changes that I've considered to be 
harmful to Fedora. There have been a surprisingly high number of those this 
release cycle, but that doesn't mean that that I'm against all Changes.

> and you provide no useful alternatives.

The alternative to this would be.. not enabling EarlyOOM, which will kill our 
users' processes needlessly.

> Additionally, you continue to insult our intelligence by assuming we
> haven't done our homework and attack the Workstation working group for
> doing a lot of legwork to try to solve very real problems that users
> see.

I'm sorry if it came off that way, but that wasn't the intention. 

> With respect to EarlyOOM, I *wanted* to introduce this to all desktop
> variants at the same time last cycle, but the amount of research and
> effort we spent to figure out what we should even *do* meant that
> there was no time to do any coordination work last cycle to bring this
> everywhere. The evidence from user reports and reviews has been clear:
> Fedora 32 Workstation Edition had a phenomenal user experience
> improvement in terms of desktop responsiveness over its predecessors
> as well as many of its counterparts that released at the same time by
> our fellow Linux distribution communities. Much of the work we're
> doing for Fedora 33 and beyond is a continuation of that effort.

The real question is whether or not EarlyOOM has anything to do with this 
"phenomenal user experience", which seems unlikely. Generally, users' 
processes getting killed isn't a good thing.

> My personal mission is to bring all the improvements we've done to the
> Linux desktop experience in Fedora Workstation to at least Fedora KDE,
> if not all Fedora desktop variants. And where it makes sense, I will
> attempt to bring these improvements to *all* Fedora variants.

That sounds like an excellent idea, but I'm not convinced that killing users' 
processes, while there's still tons of memory free available, is actually an 
improvement.

-- 
John M. Harris, Jr.

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