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From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
To: Rene Herman <rene.herman@keyaccess.nl>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
	Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@kvack.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: OOM notifications
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 15:10:07 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4717D9BF.4010508@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4717D7B6.40102@keyaccess.nl>

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Rene Herman wrote:
> That first threshold sounds fine yes. To me, the second mostly sounds
> like a job for SIGTERM though.

I agree.  Applications shouldn't be expected to be yet more complicated
and have different levels of low memory handling.  You might want to
give a process a second shot at handling SIGDANGER but after that's it's
all about preparation for a shutdown.

- --
➧ Ulrich Drepper ➧ Red Hat, Inc. ➧ 444 Castro St ➧ Mountain View, CA ❖
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  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-18 22:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-18 20:25 OOM notifications 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 [this message]
2007-10-19  5:15             ` Chris Friesen
2007-10-19 10:17             ` Pavel Machek
2007-10-19 15:18               ` Samuel Tardieu
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 21:02   ` Andrew Morton
2007-10-26 21:05   ` Martin Bligh
2007-10-26 21:05     ` Martin Bligh
2007-10-26 21:11     ` Andrew Morton
2007-10-26 21:11       ` Andrew Morton
2007-10-26 21:35       ` Rik van Riel
2007-10-26 21:35         ` Rik van Riel
2007-10-26 21:59         ` Martin Bligh
2007-10-26 21:59           ` Martin Bligh
2007-10-26 22:30           ` Rik van Riel
2007-10-26 22:30             ` Rik van Riel
2007-10-28 21:16   ` Balbir Singh
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

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