From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762794AbXJSPUo (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Oct 2007 11:20:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752464AbXJSPUf (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Oct 2007 11:20:35 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:47115 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751333AbXJSPUe (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Oct 2007 11:20:34 -0400 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Samuel Tardieu Subject: Re: OOM notifications Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 17:18:06 +0200 Message-ID: <87lk9zgmkx.fsf@willow.rfc1149.net> References: <20071018202504.GA2854@dmt> <4717C43D.6030204@keyaccess.nl> <20071018165238.0537eaa6@bree.surriel.com> <4717CAEC.50203@keyaccess.nl> <20071018171857.409255de@bree.surriel.com> <4717D7B6.40102@keyaccess.nl> <4717D9BF.4010508@redhat.com> <20071019101743.GA24354@elf.ucw.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: zaphod.rfc1149.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:tc8R6zui9SMRrbmuGP48Ygs/2hs= X-Leafnode-NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:6f8:37a:2::2 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >>>>> "Pavel" == Pavel Machek 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/