Re: 'disposable' dirty pages [was: Out Of Memory in v. 2.1]

David Mansfield (david@cobite.com)
Thu, 8 Oct 1998 22:26:43 -0400 (EDT)

Another argument for the OOM signal (SIGOOM!) is that a userland daemon
could catch this and perform whatever killer logic was required by that
system admin. For example, I would kill all bash sessions :-),
preserving the essential daemons for sure, and I'd kill 'em with HUP.
But this would be up to me, and completely configurable AND reliable,
without cluttering up the kernel.

David

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