Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 2 Sep 2019 22:15:53 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: Let's talk about the elephant in the room - the Linux kernel's inability to gracefully handle low memory pressure |
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Hi!
> > > > And if there is a meaningful way to make the kernel behave better, that would > > obviously be of huge value too. > > > > Thanks > > Daniel > > Hi, > > Is there a way for an application to be told that there is a memory > pressure situation? > For example, say I do a "make -j32" and half way through the compile > it hits a memory pressure situation. > If make could have been told about it. It could give up on some of the > parallel compiles, and instead proceed as if the user have typed "make > -j4". It could then re-try the failed compile parts, that failed due > to memory pressure. > I know all applications won't be this clever, but providing a kernel > API so that an application could do something about it, if the > programmer of that application has thought about it.
Support is not really needed in many applications. It would be nice to have for make and web browsers... And I suspect it is easy to do interface becomes available.
Best regards, Pavel
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