Re: Ongoing 2.4 VM suckage

Rik van Riel
2001-08-02T22:07:32Z

On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote:

> Gosh, here's an idea: if there is no memory left and someone
> malloc()s some more, have malloc() fail? Kill the process that
> required the memory? I can't believe the attitude I am hearing.
> Userland processes should be able to go around doing whaever the
> fuck they want and the box should stay alive.

If you have a proposal on what to do when both ram
and swap fill up and you need more memory, please
let me know.

Until then, we'll kill processes when we exhaust
both memory and swap ;)

cheers,

Rik
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