jmcmullan@linuxcare.com:
> Just to be a frick'n idiot, why not just have the kernel
> issue messages to the kernel log when swap space becomes low,
> (configurable via /proc), and have a user-land daemon monitor
> for that, and Do The Right Thing(TM)?
>
> Would take a lot of the OOM cruft out of the kernel, and
> would alloe pop-up messages, selectable kill-this-app dialogs,
> AI systems, whatever.
>
> Just say:
>
> Jan 11, 2000: kernel: VM Warning: Swap space at %90
> Jan 11, 2000: kernel: VM Warning: Swap space at %95
> Jan 11, 2000: kernel: VM Warning: Swap space at %98
> Jan 11, 2000: kernel: VM Fatal: Swap space exhausted!
Because the time delta between 90% and 100% can be zero (or so nearly
so that syslog doesn't get to run before it is).
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Jesse I Pollard, II
Email: pollard@navo.hpc.mil
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