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Eee: earlyoom, drop disk swap

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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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rope 2026-09-29 19:24:47 +01:00
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hosts/FredOS-Eee.nix
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@ -98,8 +98,11 @@ in
# WebKit is the only engine left that handles the modern web.
environment.systemPackages = [ pkgs.epiphany ];
# 1GB RAM: compressed swap in front of the disk swap.
# 1GB RAM: compressed swap only (disk swap is off, see hardware file).
zramSwap.enable = true;
# A heavy page (bbc.co.uk) used to freeze everything; now the biggest
# process (the browser's web process) dies instead.
services.earlyoom.enable = true;
# The NixOS manual is a big from-source build on i686 for a page nobody reads.
documentation.nixos.enable = false;

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hosts/hardware/FredOS-Eee.nix
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@ -23,9 +23,9 @@
fsType = "ext4";
};
swapDevices = [
{ device = "/dev/disk/by-uuid/32ca4097-0ea0-4594-998c-c5756591530e"; }
];
# sda2 (uuid 32ca4097-…) is swap but left off: paging a browser to this disk
# froze the box for minutes. zram only, so earlyoom fires before a thrash.
swapDevices = [ ];
nixpkgs.hostPlatform = "i686-linux";
hardware.cpu.intel.updateMicrocode = lib.mkDefault config.hardware.enableRedistributableFirmware;