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

[Hans van Kranenburg]

Hi Samuel,

On 8/10/26 12:37 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> 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
Yeah, that idea totally makes sense to me.
Thanks for the suggestion.

I'm not sure if we can also do this for Trixie, will have to discuss
that in the team when we get to this item.

Thanks,
Hans