From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 17:10:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: Discussion on my OOM killer API In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: James Sutherland Cc: Rik van Riel , Ingo Oeser , linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: 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 -- 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/