From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2000 14:44:48 -0700 (PDT) From: jg@pa.dec.com (Jim Gettys) Message-Id: <200010092144.OAA02051@pachyderm.pa.dec.com> In-Reply-To: Subject: Re: [PATCH] VM fix for 2.4.0-test9 & OOM handler Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Alan Cox , Jim Gettys , Andi Kleen , Ingo Molnar , Andrea Arcangeli , Rik van Riel , Byron Stanoszek , MM mailing list , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2000 14:38:10 -0700 (PDT), Linus Torvalds said: > > The problem is that there is no way to keep track of them afterwards. > > So the process that gave X the bitmap dies. What now? Are we going to > depend on X un-counting the resources? > X has to uncount the resources already, to free the memory in the X server allocated on behalf of that client. X has to get this right, to be a long lived server (properly debugged X servers last many months without problems: unfortunately, a fair number of DDX's are buggy). - Jim -- Jim Gettys Technology and Corporate Development Compaq Computer Corporation jg@pa.dec.com -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux.eu.org/Linux-MM/