From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: "linux-os \(Dick Johnson\)" <linux-os@analogic.com>
Cc: "Daniel Spång" <daniel.spang@gmail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Out of memory management in embedded systems
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 10:17:11 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070928101711.504eb198@bree.surriel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0709281000300.9062@chaos.analogic.com>
On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 10:04:23 -0400
"linux-os \(Dick Johnson\)" <linux-os@analogic.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Sep 2007, [iso-8859-1] Daniel Spång wrote:
>
> > On 9/28/07, linux-os (Dick Johnson) <linux-os@analogic.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Fri, 28 Sep 2007, [iso-8859-1] Daniel Spång wrote:
> >>> Some kind of notification to the application that the available memory
> >>> is scarce and let the application free up some memory (e.g., by
> >>> flushing caches), could be used to improve the situation
> Any networked appliance can (will) throw data away if there are
> no resources available.
That is exactly what Daniel proposed in his first email.
I think his idea makes sense.
--
"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-28 14:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-28 12:55 Daniel Spång
2007-09-28 13:09 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2007-09-28 13:30 ` Daniel Spång
2007-09-28 14:04 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2007-09-28 14:14 ` Daniel Spång
2007-09-28 15:16 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2007-09-28 20:58 ` Daniel Spång
2007-09-29 19:48 ` Abhishek Sagar
2007-09-28 14:17 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2007-09-28 14:36 ` Eric Dumazet
2007-09-28 15:15 ` Rik van Riel
2007-09-28 23:00 ` Nicholas Miell
2007-09-29 1:59 ` Daniel Phillips
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2007-09-29 9:15 ` Bodo Eggert
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2007-10-01 7:58 ` Markku Savela
2007-10-01 8:13 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2007-10-01 16:27 ` david
2007-10-01 20:25 ` Robin Getz
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