From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Cc: Rene Herman <rene.herman@keyaccess.nl>,
Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@kvack.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: OOM notifications
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 12:17:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071019101743.GA24354@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4717D9BF.4010508@redhat.com>
On Thu 2007-10-18 15:10:07, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
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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.
That works okay on a PC, but try cellphone one day.
You want management app to close the least used application. You do
not want _kernel_ to select "who to send SIGTERM to".
Pavel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-19 10:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ 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
2007-10-19 5:15 ` Chris Friesen
2007-10-19 10:17 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
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 21:05 ` 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
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