Raw Metadata XML
<pkgmetadata>
<maintainer type="person">
<email>lucascs@protonmail.com</email>
<name>Lucas Couto</name>
</maintainer>
<longdescription lang="en">
Userspace low memory handler. It watches PSI (Pressure Stall Information)
-- the kernel's measure of how long tasks actually stall waiting on
memory -- along with MemAvailable and swap, and terminates the heaviest
offender before the machine starts thrashing. The kernel OOM killer only
acts once an allocation has already failed, by which point the desktop
has typically been unresponsive for minutes.
It is the closest equivalent to systemd-oomd for hosts that do not run
systemd: systemd-oomd is also PSI-driven, but ships as a systemd unit and
kills whole cgroups, whereas nohang is init-agnostic and picks individual
processes through a configurable badness score. Unlike sys-apps/earlyoom
it reads PSI rather than free-memory percentages alone.
Two configuration profiles are installed and they are mutually exclusive:
nohang for headless and conservative setups, nohang-desktop for
interactive machines, which additionally warns the logged-in user through
desktop notifications before anything is killed.
</longdescription>
<use>
<flag name="desktop">
Pull in <pkg>x11-libs/libnotify</pkg> and <pkg>app-admin/sudo</pkg>, needed
by the nohang-desktop profile to send GUI warnings to the logged-in user
</flag>
</use>
<upstream>
<maintainer status="active">
<email></email>
<name>Alexey Avramov</name>
</maintainer>
<bugs-to>https://github.com/hakavlad/nohang/issues</bugs-to>
<remote-id type="github">hakavlad/nohang</remote-id>
</upstream>
</pkgmetadata>