Can I set nohang to autostart?

I had this issue where my system used to hang with only muse still moving, and we reached a conclusion that my memory was full and i needed to use nohang.
However every time I reboot, I have to manually type "systemctl start nohang"
i tried "systemctl autostart nohang" and it showed "Unknown command verb autostart"
is there a different command for this or is it not possible?

i tried using kde connect to just start it when i think it might hang but it needs password to launch, and i dont think i will be able to input password when the system freezes.

inxi -Faz

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Any suggestions or redirections to link will be very helpful.
Thanks

sudo systemctl enable --now nohang.service

I would suggest nohang-desktop service though.
As stated at there github,

  • nohang-desktop.conf provides default settings optimized for desktop usage.

If you want to use nohang-desktop then use,

sudo systemctl enable --now nohang-desktop.service
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nohang-desktop is by default enabled on Garuda installations. To me it seems like you would have 2 services running at the same time, please verify if thats the case.

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Is the graphics card in use? bcz system is freezing?
:thinking:

i m using laptop

is it optimised for laptops too?

when i run "systemctl status nohang" just after boot , it says inactive

nope i rarely use my graphics in linux. maybe while using brave browser but seldom otherwise

But you read what I wrote?

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I think my service starts but is inactive. i rebooted my system and ran

systemctl status nohang
○ nohang.service - Sophisticated low memory handler
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/nohang.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
Active: inactive (dead)
Docs: man:nohang(8)
https://github.com/hakavlad/nohang

this is what i get
and when i manually start nohang with the command
"systemctl start nohang" and then run status, it shows

● nohang.service - Sophisticated low memory handler
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/nohang.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
Active: active (running) since Wed 2021-09-01 21:29:59 IST; 2s ago
Docs: man:nohang(8)
https://github.com/hakavlad/nohang
Main PID: 9309 (python3)
Tasks: 1 (limit: 25)
Memory: 12.4M (max: 100.0M swap max: 100.0M available: 87.5M)
CPU: 161ms
CGroup: /hostcritical.slice/nohang.service
└─9309 python3 /usr/bin/nohang --monitor --config /etc/nohang/nohang.conf

Sep 01 21:29:59 Chris-Aspire7 systemd[1]: Started Sophisticated low memory handler.
Sep 01 21:29:59 Chris-Aspire7 nohang[9309]: Starting nohang with config /etc/nohang/nohang.conf
Sep 01 21:29:59 Chris-Aspire7 nohang[9309]: Monitoring has started!

I just want to make it so that i dont have to manually do this everytime

just extra info if it may help
i m running zen kernel

There is a difference between nohang and nohang-desktop. The right thing to do wouldve been checking systemctl status nohang-desktop.

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IMO nohang is kinda annoying when it quits java.

you were right, i ran systemctl status nohang-desktop and i got

○ nohang-desktop.service - Sophisticated low memory handler
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/nohang-desktop.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
Active: inactive (dead) since Wed 2021-09-01 21:29:59 IST; 11h ago
Docs: man:nohang(8)
https://github.com/hakavlad/nohang
Process: 501 ExecStart=/usr/bin/nohang --monitor --config /etc/nohang/nohang-desktop.conf (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Main PID: 501 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
CPU: 207ms

Sep 01 21:27:13 Chris-Aspire7 systemd[1]: Started Sophisticated low memory handler.
Sep 01 21:27:13 Chris-Aspire7 nohang-desktop[501]: Starting nohang with config /etc/nohang/nohang-desktop.conf
Sep 01 21:27:13 Chris-Aspire7 nohang-desktop[501]: Monitoring has started!
Sep 01 21:29:59 Chris-Aspire7 systemd[1]: Stopping Sophisticated low memory handler...
Sep 01 21:29:59 Chris-Aspire7 nohang-desktop[501]: Got the SIGTERM signal
Sep 01 21:29:59 Chris-Aspire7 nohang-desktop[501]: No corrective actions applied in the last 2min 45s
Sep 01 21:29:59 Chris-Aspire7 nohang-desktop[501]: Process time: 0.18s (average: 0.11%); exit.
Sep 01 21:29:59 Chris-Aspire7 systemd[1]: nohang-desktop.service: Deactivated successfully.
Sep 01 21:29:59 Chris-Aspire7 systemd[1]: Stopped Sophisticated low memory handler.

can i set it to autostart?

It autostarts already :eyes:
I was suspecting it being disabled once you enabled nohang but it all happened quite quickly - did you enable it right after booting?

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i didn't really do anything
i just ran the command "systemctl status nohang-desktop" after i rebooted

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