From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from localhost (hahn@localhost) by coffee.psychology.mcmaster.ca (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA05911 for ; Thu, 26 Oct 2000 18:33:26 -0400 Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 18:33:26 -0400 (EDT) From: Mark Hahn 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: linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: > from a number of people who would like to have the OOM killer > do something "special" for their system. if they are few and/or special enough, it makes a lot more sense for them to just maintain a private patch. actually, I've never seen a discussion of why such needs couldn't be served by a "god" process that mlocks itself, runs at RT, etc. there are some minor details to work out (does it poll, or get some hook?) > For instance, they want to have student programs killed before > staff programs, or want to be able to specify some priveledged > processes that will never be killed (or do other things that which could all be accomplished by providing a simple priority: even 8 bits of ordering would probably be overkill... regards, mark hahn -- 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/