From: Samuel Tardieu <sam@rfc1149.net>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: OOM notifications
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 17:18:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lk9zgmkx.fsf@willow.rfc1149.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071019101743.GA24354@elf.ucw.cz>
>>>>> "Pavel" == Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> writes:
Pavel> That works okay on a PC, but try cellphone one day.
Pavel> You want management app to close the least used
Pavel> application. You do not want _kernel_ to select "who to send
Pavel> SIGTERM to".
That's why I would prefer that *all* processes receive the
SIGDANGER/whatever (and of course ignore it by default). Only the
management app would handle it in the case you describe and would
select one or more applications to unload to free some memory.
Sam
--
Samuel Tardieu -- sam@rfc1149.net -- http://www.rfc1149.net/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-19 15:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-18 20:25 Marcelo Tosatti
2007-10-18 20:38 ` Rene Herman
2007-10-18 20:52 ` Rik van Riel
2007-10-18 21:06 ` Rene Herman
2007-10-18 21:18 ` Rik van Riel
2007-10-18 22:01 ` Rene Herman
2007-10-18 22:10 ` Ulrich Drepper
2007-10-19 5:15 ` Chris Friesen
2007-10-19 10:17 ` Pavel Machek
2007-10-19 15:18 ` Samuel Tardieu [this message]
2007-10-19 16:58 ` Chris Friesen
2007-10-18 22:16 ` Rene Herman
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-10-18 20:15 Marcelo Tosatti
2007-10-26 21:02 ` Andrew Morton
2007-10-26 21:05 ` Martin Bligh
2007-10-26 21:11 ` Andrew Morton
2007-10-26 21:35 ` Rik van Riel
2007-10-26 21:59 ` Martin Bligh
2007-10-26 22:30 ` Rik van Riel
2007-10-28 21:16 ` Balbir Singh
2007-10-30 14:57 ` Jan Kara
2007-10-30 15:23 ` Rik van Riel
2007-10-30 15:55 ` Jan Kara
2007-10-30 17:31 ` Rik van Riel
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=87lk9zgmkx.fsf@willow.rfc1149.net \
--to=sam@rfc1149.net \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox
Powered by JetHome