Re: [RFC] Enabling other oom schemes

From: Robert Love
Date: Sat Sep 13 2003 - 19:57:03 EST


On Sat, 2003-09-13 at 18:04, Helge Hafting wrote:

> So a "complicated" oom handler need to preallocate all the memory
> it might ever need. Not impossible.

Right. I was just pointing it out.

Preallocating isn't necessarily possible e.g. you need something
dynamically, need to call back into user-space, etc.

Robert Love


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