Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 13 Jul 2000 17:01:54 -0500 (CDT) | From | Jesse Pollard <> | Subject | Re: OOM in 2.2.14 |
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> > Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br> wrote: > > This is a completely separate issue, but a really neat > > idea. However, this is not something that will be able > > to run when the system has no more memory left ;) > > What not at 10% (or other specific limit) swap space > remaining - I belive that was my original suggestion, > and means that I CAN still run. And 100k of mlock()ed > memory would be plenty to a) renice all other processes > to 19 and b) send a little bit of X protocol to a currenlt running > X server or c) chvt() to an unused VT and use a text-based > What process do you want me to kill? dialog.
1. Because the difference between 90% and 100% used can be reached faster than context switching. 2. reniceing doesn't recover memory. 3. root doesn't have authorization to access the X server under any circumstances that root is NOT logged in on the X server. 3. No memory is available to chvt.
------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jesse I Pollard, II Email: pollard@navo.hpc.mil
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