Re: [RFC] Enabling other oom schemes

[Helge Hafting]

On Sat, Sep 13, 2003 at 04:52:56PM -0400, Robert Love wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-09-13 at 13:48, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> 
> > Also, when the OOM condition is triggered I'd like the system to
> > reboot, but first try for a short while to unmount filesystems cleanly.
> > 
> > Any chance of those things?
> 
> I like all of these ideas.
> 
> One thing to keep in mind is that during a real OOM condition, we cannot
> allocate _any_ memory.  None. Zilch.
> 
So a "complicated" oom handler need to preallocate all the memory
it might ever need.  Not impossible.

Helge Hafting
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