From: "Jakob Østergaard" <jakob@unthought.net>
To: David Ford <david@blue-labs.org>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: "VM watchdog"? [was Re: VM nuisance]
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 03:41:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010817034137.B2188@unthought.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3B748AA8.4010105@blue-labs.org> <20010814140011.B38@toy.ucw.cz> <20010817002420.C30521@unthought.net> <3B7C72CE.60601@blue-labs.org>
In-Reply-To: <3B7C72CE.60601@blue-labs.org>; from david@blue-labs.org on Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 09:26:38PM -0400
On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 09:26:38PM -0400, David Ford wrote:
> I think it is an excellent way to do it. Nobody said you have to run
> the program and nobody forces you to use a particular program with a
> particular policy. It puts the OOM policy in userland where -you-
> decide when and how things happen.
>
Sure - what I was trying to say was, that I don't think the solution
will work very well.
...
>
> The kernel allocates memory within itself. We will still reach OOM
> conditions. It can't be avoided.
Good point.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-08-17 1:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-08-11 1:30 VM nuisance David Ford
2001-08-11 2:48 ` Rik van Riel
2001-08-11 2:59 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-08-11 4:17 ` Rik van Riel
2001-08-11 4:40 ` David Ford
2001-08-11 4:46 ` Rik van Riel
2001-08-11 4:41 ` safemode
2001-08-11 5:00 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-08-11 13:13 ` Alan Cox
2001-08-11 15:39 ` David Ford
2001-08-11 3:50 ` safemode
2001-08-12 13:09 ` Maciej Zenczykowski
2001-08-12 13:45 ` Rik van Riel
2001-08-16 23:29 ` Justin A
2001-08-17 0:06 ` Dr. Kelsey Hudson
2001-08-17 0:24 ` Justin A
2001-08-17 2:54 ` Dr. Kelsey Hudson
2001-08-12 23:05 ` Dan Mann
[not found] ` <9l5v9a$ha9$1@ns1.clouddancer.com>
2001-08-13 0:01 ` Colonel
2001-08-13 14:32 ` dean gaudet
2001-08-13 19:47 ` Brian
2001-08-14 8:27 ` Helge Hafting
2001-08-17 13:34 ` Szabolcs Szakacsits
2001-08-17 17:29 ` Rik van Riel
2001-08-14 14:00 ` "VM watchdog"? [was Re: VM nuisance] Pavel Machek
2001-08-16 22:24 ` Jakob Østergaard
2001-08-17 1:26 ` David Ford
2001-08-17 1:41 ` Jakob Østergaard [this message]
[not found] ` <9li6sf$h5$1@ns1.clouddancer.com>
2001-08-17 9:04 ` Colonel
2001-08-17 20:38 ` David Ford
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