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From: Ed Tomlinson <tomlins@cam.org>
To: Mark Hahn <hahn@coffee.psychology.mcmaster.ca>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Marco Colombo <marco@esi.it>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] VM fix for 2.4.0-test9 & OOM handler
Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2000 13:47:28 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <00100913472801.03825@oscar> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10010091319360.29405-100000@coffee.psychology.mcmaster.ca>

On Mon, 09 Oct 2000, Mark Hahn wrote:
> > feature. Rather introduce a orthogonal voluntary "importance"
> > system-call, which marks processes as more and less important. This is
> > similar to priority, it can only be decreased by ordinary users.
>
> nice!  call it CAP_IMPORTANT ;)
> come to think of it, I'm not sure more than one bit would be terribly
> useful - no any sane person is going to spend time
> sorting all their processes by importance...

What about the AIX way?  When the system is nearly OOM it sends a
SIG_DANGER signal to all processes.  Those that handle the signal are not 
initial targets for OOM...  Also in the SIG_DANGER processing they can take 
there own actions to reduce their memory usage... (we would have to look out 
for a SIG_DANGER handler that had a memory leak though)

Ed Tomlinson 
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2000-10-09 17:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 112+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-10-06 18:59 Rik van Riel
2000-10-06 20:19 ` Byron Stanoszek
2000-10-06 20:31   ` Rik van Riel
2000-10-09 10:12     ` Marco Colombo
2000-10-09 11:27       ` Byron Stanoszek
2000-10-09 16:26       ` Kurt Garloff
2000-10-09 18:29         ` Jamie Lokier
2000-10-09 17:27       ` Ingo Molnar
2000-10-09 17:25         ` Mark Hahn
2000-10-09 17:37           ` Ingo Molnar
2000-10-09 17:47           ` Ed Tomlinson [this message]
2000-10-09 18:01             ` Ingo Molnar
2000-10-09 18:14       ` Rik van Riel
2000-10-09 18:47         ` Ingo Molnar
2000-10-09 18:52           ` Rik van Riel
2000-10-09 19:27             ` Ingo Molnar
2000-10-09 19:38         ` Marco Colombo
2000-10-06 21:27   ` David Weinehall
2000-10-06 23:21     ` David Weinehall
2000-10-09 18:28   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-10-09 18:42     ` Ingo Molnar
2000-10-09 19:05       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-10-09 19:07         ` Rik van Riel
2000-10-09 19:42           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-10-09 20:06             ` Ingo Molnar
2000-10-09 20:06               ` Andi Kleen
2000-10-09 20:19                 ` Ingo Molnar
2000-10-09 20:12                   ` Rik van Riel
2000-10-09 20:24                     ` Ingo Molnar
2000-10-09 20:18                       ` Rik van Riel
2000-10-10  3:23                         ` Philipp Rumpf
2000-10-09 20:38                       ` James Sutherland
2000-10-09 20:40                         ` Rik van Riel
2000-10-10  9:59                           ` J.A. Sutherland
2000-10-09 20:44                         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-10-09 21:52                         ` Aaron Sethman
2000-10-09 21:54                           ` Rik van Riel
2000-10-09 22:29                       ` FORT David
2000-10-09 20:52                 ` Linus Torvalds
2000-10-09 20:58                   ` Andi Kleen
2000-10-09 21:21                     ` Jim Gettys
2000-10-09 21:28                       ` Alan Cox
2000-10-09 21:34                         ` Andi Kleen
2000-10-09 21:38                         ` Linus Torvalds
2000-10-09 21:39                           ` Rik van Riel
2000-10-09 21:44                             ` Linus Torvalds
2000-10-10 13:17                               ` Marco Colombo
2000-10-09 21:44                           ` Jim Gettys
2000-10-09 21:50                             ` Linus Torvalds
2000-10-09 22:07                               ` Jim Gettys
2000-10-09 23:13                                 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2000-10-09 23:16                                   ` Rik van Riel
2000-10-09 23:46                                   ` Jim Gettys
2000-10-10  9:46                                   ` Jamie Lokier
2000-10-10 14:41                               ` Rogier Wolff
2000-10-10 17:28                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2000-10-09 21:51                           ` Alan Cox
2000-10-09 21:40                         ` Jim Gettys
2000-10-09 21:05                   ` Rik van Riel
2000-10-09 22:08                     ` Gerrit.Huizenga
2000-10-09 22:34                       ` Byron Stanoszek
2000-10-09 22:57                         ` Rik van Riel
2000-10-10  0:25                         ` [RFC] New ideas for the " Byron Stanoszek
2000-10-09 20:11               ` [PATCH] VM fix for 2.4.0-test9 & " Andrea Arcangeli
2000-10-09 20:15                 ` Rik van Riel
2000-10-09 20:40               ` Linus Torvalds
2000-10-09 20:47                 ` Rik van Riel
2000-10-09 20:57                 ` Ingo Molnar
2000-10-09 21:10                   ` Peter Waltenberg
2000-10-09 22:25                     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-10-09 22:59                       ` Peter Waltenberg
2000-10-09 23:52                         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-10-09 23:10                       ` Rik van Riel
2000-10-09 21:10               ` Alan Cox
2000-10-09 21:25                 ` Ingo Molnar
2000-10-09 21:26                   ` Rik van Riel
2000-10-09 21:38                     ` Ingo Molnar
2000-10-09 21:34                       ` Rik van Riel
2000-10-10  9:09                         ` john slee
2000-10-09 20:06             ` Rik van Riel
2000-10-09 20:18               ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-10-10  3:29               ` Philipp Rumpf
2000-10-10 15:06                 ` Rik van Riel
2000-10-10 15:24                   ` Philipp Rumpf
2000-10-10 15:30                     ` Rik van Riel
2000-10-10 15:37                       ` Philipp Rumpf
2000-10-09 20:13           ` Ingo Molnar
2000-10-09 20:08             ` Rik van Riel
2000-10-09 20:22               ` Ingo Molnar
2000-10-09 20:28                 ` David Ford
2000-10-09 20:34                   ` Rik van Riel
2000-10-09 20:45                     ` David Ford
2000-10-10  4:22                       ` Andreas Dilger
2000-10-10  4:30                         ` David Ford
2000-10-10  9:54                         ` Jamie Lokier
2000-10-09 23:35           ` Ingo Oeser
2000-10-10 15:07             ` [PATCH] OOM killer API (was: [PATCH] VM fix for 2.4.0-test9 & OOM handler) Ingo Oeser
2000-10-10 15:32               ` Rik van Riel
2000-10-10 16:11                 ` Ingo Oeser
2000-10-10 18:57                 ` Tom Rini
2000-10-10 20:58                   ` Rik van Riel
2000-10-10 22:46                     ` Tom Rini
2000-10-09 19:30       ` [PATCH] VM fix for 2.4.0-test9 & OOM handler David Ford
2000-10-09 19:58         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-10-09 20:14           ` David Ford
2000-10-09 20:05         ` Rik van Riel
2000-10-09 21:07         ` Alan Cox
2000-10-10  3:38           ` Philipp Rumpf
2000-10-10 14:07             ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-10-09 18:07 Wagner, Dave
2000-10-09 20:27 ` James Sutherland
2000-10-09 19:06 Hubertus Franke/Watson/IBM

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