Comment 0 for bug 1379296

having a lot of apps open my unity8-dash gets contantly killed along the apps if a certain OOM threshold is reached ... this appears like a system crash of the UI (even though it is desired killing) from a user perspective ...

checking the oom_score_adj values of all running apps i see that the dash has the same high value as all other open foreground apps:

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11 7960 oxide-renderer
11 7963 oxide-renderer
11 7988 oxide-renderer
300 6170 oxide-renderer
802 12514 unity8-dash
802 6088 webbrowser-app
802 6873 webapp-containe
802 7425 webapp-containe
802 7910 webapp-containe

(the full log can be found at http://paste.ubuntu.com/8526308/ ) given that the dash is one part of our core UI it should be excluded from app lifecycle management (keeping the same oom_score of 10 as unity8 does) so that only actual apps get killed on high memory pressure.