Re: User space out of memory approach

Edjard Souza Mota
2005-01-12T12:12:24Z

On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 12:19:23 +0100, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-01-12 at 11:31 +0200, Edjard Souza Mota wrote:
> > propose a new selection mechanism. This misinterpretation is misleading the
> > discussion of whether it may have som use in embedded devices or not.
> > Even though, I believe that for PCs environment it has a great potential
> > when you think that admins don't stay all the time in front of a computer.
> > Once and while they also have a rest :). In these cases, instead of simply
> > start ranking a deamon could dispatch a msg to her/him saying the system
> > is approaching a red zone.
>
> Pretty intriguing. Maybe the daemon waits for the answer mail then,
> where the admin confirms to select the daemon as the preferrable victim
> of oom.
>
> tglx

Hi,

Not worth commenting this "intriguing" idea.

Let's wait test results and Alan's answers to Ilias interpretation.

br

Edjard

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