From: ralf@uni-koblenz.de
To: jfm2@club-internet.fr, sct@redhat.com
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: Two naive questions and a suggestion
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 10:31:32 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19981125103132.H350@uni-koblenz.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19981124214432.2922.qmail@sidney.remcomp.fr>; from jfm2@club-internet.fr on Tue, Nov 24, 1998 at 09:44:32PM -0000
On Tue, Nov 24, 1998 at 09:44:32PM -0000, jfm2@club-internet.fr wrote:
> In situation like those above I would like Linux supported a concept
> like guaranteed processses: if VM is exhausted by one of them then try
> to get memory by killing non guaranteed processes and only kill the
> original one if all reamining survivors are guaranteed ones.
> It would be better for mission critical tasks.
Long time ago I suggested to make it configurable whether a process gets
memory which might be overcommited or not. This leaves malloc(x) == NULL
to deal with and that's a userland problem anyway.
Ralf
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-11-26 11:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-11-19 0:20 jfm2
1998-11-19 20:05 ` Rik van Riel
1998-11-20 1:25 ` jfm2
1998-11-20 15:31 ` Eric W. Biederman
1998-11-23 18:08 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1998-11-23 20:45 ` jfm2
1998-11-23 21:59 ` jfm2
1998-11-24 1:21 ` Vladimir Dergachev
1998-11-24 11:17 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1998-11-24 21:44 ` jfm2
1998-11-25 6:41 ` Rik van Riel
1998-11-25 12:27 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1998-11-25 13:08 ` Rik van Riel
1998-11-25 14:46 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1998-11-25 16:47 ` Rik van Riel
1998-11-25 21:02 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1998-11-25 21:21 ` Rik van Riel
1998-11-25 22:29 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1998-11-26 7:30 ` Rik van Riel
1998-11-26 12:48 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1998-11-25 20:01 ` jfm2
1998-11-26 7:16 ` Rik van Riel
1998-11-26 19:59 ` jfm2
1998-11-27 17:45 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1998-11-27 21:14 ` jfm2
1998-11-25 14:48 ` Eric W. Biederman
1998-11-25 20:29 ` jfm2
1998-11-25 16:31 ` ralf [this message]
1998-11-26 12:18 ` Rik van Riel
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