Re: OOM notifications

Samuel Tardieu
2007-10-19T15:20:44Z

>>>>> "Pavel" == Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> 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
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