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@compfu@mograph.social
2025-06-11 21:31:20

#Linux tip for people running Rocky Linux #VFX workstations (or Alma or RHEL I guess) who are looking for a solution to the system locking up once you're running out of memory: install systemd-oomd - the out of memory killer daemon. It's not enabled by default but I think it is on distributions that…

@nobodyinperson@fosstodon.org
2025-06-07 09:04:12

Oh wow ​LLMs are just so terrible. 🤦‍♂️
I made a #systemd service watcher¹ ( :nixos: #NixOS module²³) which regularly feeds systemd status outputs into an LLM (mistral here) and sends me an email if it thinks it found real problems. Well, now I always get alarmist emails with bullshit warnings, suc…

An email:

Subject: ⚠ yann-desktop-nixos forgejo: "Urgent: Forgejo Service Overrun - Possible Resource Issue"

Diagnose
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 PROBLEM
   Forgejo service has been running for over 4 hours without restarting or signaling an error, which is unusual. This may indicate a problem with the application or a resource consumption issue. It's recommended to investigate further and possibly restart the service.
@thesaigoneer@social.linux.pizza
2025-06-12 00:17:02

The more I see the moves that are being taken the better I feel about leaving systemd behind.
But (growling from his cave): I told you so.
I am already pre-warning here: I'm getting fed up with QT and the 300 million options in KDE as well.
End of the service message.

@hllizi@hespere.de
2025-06-25 06:53:13

I'm confronted with a very similar problem, has anything changed about the situation. (I.e. is it possible to start a process manually and then manually mark the systemd unit that would normally start it as running and have it behave like the service was started by systemd?)