Em Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 09:40:52AM -0500, Theodore Tso escreveu: > On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 12:00:50AM -0700, Andreas Dilger wrote: > > > AIX had SIGDANGER some 15 years ago. Admittedly, that was sent when > > > the system was about to hit OOM, not when it was about to start swapping. > > > > I'd tried to advocate SIGDANGER some years ago as well, but none of > > the kernel maintainers were interested. It definitely makes sense > > to have some sort of mechanism like this. At the time I first brought > > it up it was in conjunction with Netscape using too much cache on some > > system, but it would be just as useful for all kinds of other memory- > > hungry applications. > > It's been discussed before, but I suspect the main reason why it was > never done is no one submitted a patch. Also, the problem is actually > a pretty complex one. There are a couple of different stages where > you might want to send an alert to processes: Isn't Marcelo, Riel and some other people working on memory notifications? - Arnaldo - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
