Re: [PATCH] oom_pardon, aka don't kill my xlock

Alan Cox
2004-09-29T00:54:56Z

On Llu, 2004-09-27 at 14:12, Jon Masters wrote:
> What would be wrong with having the page reclaim algorithms use one of
> the low memory watermarks as a trigger to call in to userspace to
> extend the swap available if possible? This is probably what Microsoft
> et al do with their "Windows is extending your virtual memory, yada
> yada blah blah". Comments? Already done?

Seems a reasonable use for a hotplug or netlink event for 2.6, send
patches...