Messages in this thread |  | | | From | Keith Rohrer <> | | Subject | Re: Out of memory kernel deat | | Date | Tue, 13 May 1997 04:41:45 -0500 (CDT) |
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> On Mon, 12 May 1997, Felix Schroeter wrote: > > I agree in this. But you should take care: If the system is badly in need > > of free memory, it may be the case that the user mode "free memory" > > daemon can't be paged in anymore. > If you want such a daemon it, obviously, should mlock itself down > and perhaps even run with a high SCHED_FIFO priority so when it > needs to run it gets to run. Actually, it shouldn't need to run at all unless just about everyone is blocked trying to swap; it will already likely have a high scheduling priority because it won't run often or for long. So I don't see the need to fiddle the priority...but mlockall() would be a good thing!
Keith
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