Author: boyska Date: To: tails-dev Subject: Re: [Tails-dev] Fwd: Critical Usability Issue due to which I
Haven't Used Tails in Years
Hi,
> Tails runs without any swap space (obviously, to maintain amnesia),
> the entire system may lock up at any moment due to heavy memory usage
> and opening of many Web browser tabs (which I usually do), the Magic
> Sysrq functionality of manually invoking the OOM killer in such
> emergency situations is disabled by default in Tails (and there's no
> way to enable without rebooting, and it's not recommended to enable it
> when connecting to the Internet as it's insecure), and Tails bundles
> no userspace early OOM daemon enabled out-of-the-box (such as
> systemd-oomd).
> *The very least you can do is ship a new version of Tails *with a
> slightly modified configuration value under /proc *to enable the Magic
> Sysrq-F key combination*. I request that you also consider shipping
> *systemd-oomd enabled by default* in the next major release of Tails
> (i.e. version 6.0). Thanks for the suggestion. Would you mind explaining in what kind of
scenarios relying on Linux kernel built-in OOM killer gave you a bad UX?
> I have a USB flash drive with Tails, installed using Tails installer,
> with an encrypted persistence, up-to-date as of around 2019-2020, with
> an early (stable) version of Tails 4.x if I remember right. My
> question is this: Can I do a manual upgrade to the latest stable
> version of Tails 5? yes
> *Should I back up my encrypted persistence *before doing anything,
