I just read the interview with Rik about the Linux VM. One dissatisfaction that I've had with ever VM on every OS that I have tried (NT, BSD, Linux, NeXTSTEP, Mac OS X, Solaris) is that there is no way for the user to interrupt things. For example, when I perform some operation and that forces my system to go into swap-from-hell mode for 10 minutes, there is no way for me to interrupt the OS and say "hey, give me a lists of tasks you are trying to perform and I will tell you which ones to do now, which to do later, and which you can just cancel (kill)". The only thing I can do in this situation is reboot, since the OS is swapping so hard that X isn't even processing events. It sounds like the "OOM Killer" is working towards this goal. Where can I find more information on this topic? Will it ever be possible to keep a small program in pinned memory that can always come up and show the user what is going on (and give a chance to kill processes)? Please reply direct as I am not list enabled.... Thanks, -Jesse __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/ -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ IRC Channel: irc.openprojects.net / #kernelnewbies Web Page: http://www.kernelnewbies.org/
