[Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#1144051: xen-utils-common: Should apply choom -1000 on xenconsoled too

[Samuel Thibault]

Package: xen-utils-common
Version: 4.20.3+127-gc42374a105-1
Severity: normal

Hello,

/etc/init.d/xen uses choom -n -1000 to start xenstored, which is
precious.

It would be very useful to use it to start xenconsoled too, to avoid
losing access to VM consoles after an OOM pass.

That's particularly important considering that the fix for the mdadm
leak is not backported yet: https://bugs.debian.org/1115497

Samuel

-- System Information:
Debian Release: forky/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable-debug'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'oldstable-debug'), (500, 'oldoldstable'), (500, 'buildd-unstable'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'buildd-experimental'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386, arm64

Kernel: Linux 7.1.3+deb14-amd64 (SMP w/22 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages xen-utils-common depends on:
ii  libc6           2.42-17
ii  libxenhypfs1    4.20.3+127-gc42374a105-1
ii  libxenstore4    4.20.3+127-gc42374a105-1
ii  python3         3.14.6-1
ii  ucf             3.0056
ii  udev            261.2-1
ii  xenstore-utils  4.20.3+127-gc42374a105-1

xen-utils-common recommends no packages.

Versions of packages xen-utils-common suggests:
pn  xen-doc  <none>

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/xen/xl.conf changed [not included]

-- no debconf information