Re: OOM notifications

Pavel Machek
2007-10-19T10:17:46Z

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.
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> 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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