From: Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolabs.com>
To: BALBIR SINGH <balbir.singh@wipro.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] OOM aware applications
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 10:46:22 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010925104622.B392@turbolinux.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3BB013D3.6060408@wipro.com>
In-Reply-To: <3BB013D3.6060408@wipro.com>
On Sep 25, 2001 10:49 +0530, BALBIR SINGH wrote:
> Warning: I am not aware of what was discussed earlier about these issues
> or if they were discusses at all.
They have been discussed many times. Please search for SIGDANGER in the
linux-kernel mailing list archive.
> 1. I was wondering that instead of killing the application using
> oom_kill_task() directly, should the OOM issue some kind of a
> warning by sending a signal (some signal with si_code set to a
> value indicating that the application is causing memory to run
> out). Then, wait for a while and then see if the application is
> still misbehaving and if so kill it.
This is exactly what SIGDANGER is.
Cheers, Andreas
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-09-25 5:19 [RFC] OOM aware applications BALBIR SINGH
2001-09-25 11:05 ` Matthias Andree
2001-09-25 16:46 ` Andreas Dilger [this message]
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