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From: Jon Masters <jonmasters@gmail.com>
To: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>,
	jonathan@jonmasters.org, Lars Marowsky-Bree <lmb@suse.de>,
	Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Thomas Habets <thomas@habets.pp.se>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] oom_pardon, aka don't kill my xlock
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 00:07:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <35fb2e5904092716077e744882@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040927171253.GA9728@MAIL.13thfloor.at>

On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 19:12:53 +0200, Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at> wrote:

> I'm no friend of the 'extend swap idea' so don't
> get me wrong, but userspace can just reduce the
> cases where you get out-of-swap, without support
> from the kernel side (via some userspace helper)

I was just thinking it might be a suitable approach for some of the
distros to take when running on a machine with plenty of disk that for
whatever reason runs at risk of rolling over and dying - better to
take up some additional disk space than to have some critical server
process killed. It's not pretty but then neither is the oom killer,
and this might reduce some of that pain.

Jon.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-09-27 23:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-22 23:23 [PATCH] oom_pardon, aka don't kill my xlock Thomas Habets
2004-09-23  0:01 ` Nick Piggin
2004-09-23  0:07 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-23  4:45 ` Tonnerre
2004-09-23  6:57   ` Thomas Habets
2004-09-23 12:24     ` Tonnerre
2004-09-23 13:32       ` Thomas Habets
2004-09-23 23:45 ` Andries Brouwer
2004-09-24 13:19   ` Alan Cox
2004-09-24 19:58     ` Thomas Habets
2004-09-24 21:15       ` Alan Cox
2004-09-25 10:08         ` Thomas Habets
2004-09-27 10:41         ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-09-27 12:54           ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2004-09-27 13:12             ` Jon Masters
2004-09-27 12:36               ` Alan Cox
2004-09-27 13:35               ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-09-27 15:59                 ` Jon Masters
2004-09-27 17:12                 ` Herbert Poetzl
2004-09-27 16:42                   ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-09-28 13:33                     ` Herbert Poetzl
2004-09-28 12:32                       ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-09-28 23:55                         ` Herbert Poetzl
2004-09-27 23:07                   ` Jon Masters [this message]
2004-09-29  0:49           ` Andries Brouwer
2004-09-24 14:07   ` Pavel Machek
2004-09-24 22:57   ` Jon Masters
2004-09-25 16:32 ` Andrea Arcangeli
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-09-27 12:00 Thomas Habets
2004-09-27 12:17 ` Jon Masters

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