From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2000 19:37:57 +0200 (CEST) From: Ingo Molnar Reply-To: mingo@elte.hu Subject: Re: [PATCH] VM fix for 2.4.0-test9 & OOM handler 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: Mark Hahn Cc: Marco Colombo , Rik van Riel , linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Mark Hahn wrote: > > feature. Rather introduce a orthogonal voluntary "importance" system-call, > > which marks processes as more and less important. This is similar to > > priority, it can only be decreased by ordinary users. > > nice! call it CAP_IMPORTANT ;) > come to think of it, I'm not sure more than one bit would be terribly > useful - no any sane person is going to spend time > sorting all their processes by importance... well, this is like priorities, there is a default value, and i suspect root-owned daemons such as sendmail should get a higher 'importance' rating. This is not really directed towards ordinary users, it's rather for the protection of system-critical daemons. Anyway, this pushes the policy into user-space. Ingo -- 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/