Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Out of memory kernel deat | Date | Mon, 12 May 1997 10:05:39 +0200 (MET DST) | From | Thomas Koenig <> |
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I'd propose a fairly simple solution: send a SIGURG signal to whatever process has a signal handler for it installed.
This process could then do whatever it wants to, such as allocating more swap, killing off an errant process or send an E-Mail to the admin to go out and buy more RAM.
Policy is for userland. -- Thomas Koenig, Thomas.Koenig@ciw.uni-karlsruhe.de, ig25@dkauni2.bitnet. The joy of engineering is to find a straight line on a double logarithmic diagram.
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