From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
To: James Sutherland <jas88@cam.ac.uk>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>,
Ingo Oeser <ingo.oeser@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de>,
linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: Discussion on my OOM killer API
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 17:10:14 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10010261708490.3053-100000@penguin.transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10010270056590.11273-100000@dax.joh.cam.ac.uk>
On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, James Sutherland wrote:
>
> Which begs the question, where did the userspace OOM policy daemon go? It,
> coupled with Rik's simple in-kernel last-ditch handler, should cover most
> eventualities without the need for nasty kernel kludges.
I agree. Possibly with help to the user-space OOM thing. We should
probably implement the same SIGDANGER that some other Unixes have, and
then anybody can implement their own low-on-memory thing by having a
user-mode server that does a mlockall() and reacts to SIGDANGER by
spraying anything it wants with kill(9)'s.
Linus
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Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20001019122331.H840@nightmaster.csn.tu-chemnitz.de>
2000-10-19 17:02 ` Rik van Riel
2000-10-26 20:47 ` Linus Torvalds
2000-10-26 21:16 ` Rik van Riel
2000-10-26 22:33 ` Mark Hahn
2000-10-26 23:58 ` James Sutherland
2000-10-27 0:10 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2000-10-27 6:46 ` James Sutherland
2000-10-27 7:39 ` Gábor Lénárt
2000-10-27 13:54 ` James Sutherland
2000-10-27 17:10 ` Ingo Oeser
2000-10-27 17:36 ` James Sutherland
2000-10-27 22:12 ` jfm2
2000-10-27 22:11 ` James Sutherland
2000-10-27 22:43 ` jfm2
2000-10-27 22:51 ` James Sutherland
2000-10-28 4:48 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2000-10-28 7:29 ` James Sutherland
2000-10-30 9:02 ` G?bor L?n?rt
2000-10-30 9:41 ` James Sutherland
2000-10-30 9:53 ` G?bor L?n?rt
2000-10-30 12:18 ` J.A. Sutherland
2000-10-29 19:30 ` Ingo Oeser
2000-10-29 20:41 ` James Sutherland
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