From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>,
Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Warn if we run out of swap space
Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2009 20:38:15 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A241207.5050608@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.10.0906011328410.3921@gentwo.org>
Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Jun 2009, Avi Kivity wrote:
>
>
>> We really should have a machine readable channel for this sort of information,
>> so it can be plumbed to a userspace notification bubble the user can ignore.
>>
>
> Good idea. Create an event for udev?
>
Sounds good. The event should fire some configurable time before we
actually run out, since the userspace program will likely need to
allocate memory.
It might even allocate more swap space, thus giving the machine more
breathing room.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-03 18:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-22 18:58 Christoph Lameter
2009-05-22 20:47 ` Pavel Machek
2009-05-23 4:38 ` Andrew Morton
2009-05-25 0:53 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-05-24 13:44 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-05-25 2:42 ` Randy Dunlap
2009-05-26 0:40 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-05-26 1:05 ` Randy Dunlap
2009-05-26 1:08 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-05-26 3:29 ` Paul Mundt
2009-05-26 14:23 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-05-26 20:15 ` Andrew Morton
2009-05-26 20:45 ` Randy Dunlap
2009-05-26 20:55 ` Andrew Morton
2009-05-27 0:25 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-05-26 20:54 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-05-26 21:01 ` Andrew Morton
2009-05-26 21:05 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-05-27 0:42 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-05-27 13:54 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-06-04 6:02 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-06-01 16:19 ` Avi Kivity
2009-06-01 17:29 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-06-01 17:38 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2009-06-01 19:35 ` Andrew Morton
2009-06-01 19:44 ` Avi Kivity
2009-06-02 9:14 ` Pavel Machek
2009-06-02 9:19 ` Avi Kivity
2009-06-02 9:15 ` Pavel Machek
2009-06-02 9:21 ` Avi Kivity
2009-06-02 9:30 ` Pavel Machek
2009-06-02 9:50 ` Avi Kivity
2009-06-02 9:23 ` Avi Kivity
2009-06-02 9:26 ` Pavel Machek
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