Add earlyoom to dev desktop (#480)

Sometimes the dev desktop just OOMs and dies because someone committed a happy little accident, as one does. Luckily Linux has an OOM killer, sadly it's pretty useless in practice. Luckily there's a userspace workaround! It works really well. --------- Co-authored-by: MarcoIeni <[email protected]>
rust-lang · Sep 6, 2024 · ba38b18 · ba38b18
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diff --git a/ansible/roles/dev-desktop/tasks/dependencies.yml b/ansible/roles/dev-desktop/tasks/dependencies.yml
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
       - clang
       - cmake
       - gcc-mingw-w64-x86-64 # Allows running `x check --target x86_64-pc-windows-gnu`
+      - earlyoom # Earlyoom kills processes using too much memory before they can cause trouble.
       - jq
       - libssl-dev
       - llvm