Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Out of memory kernel deat | Date | Tue, 13 May 1997 16:07:47 +0200 | From | Olaf Titz <> |
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> > SIGDANGER is essentially useless because it is AIX specific; >99% of > > software ignores it so it gains you nothing. > Unless you have a daemon ready to implement some kind of process killing > policy when it gets the signal. I think you'd need real-time extensions > to write this daemon right (e.g. lock it into memory). And, of course, > you'd want it to be very, very small.
There is an obvious choice for this process: init. It could spawn a handler from inittab or do some policy by itself (configurable in some way of course). I agree that a certain amount of memory should be reserved for root for this purpose.
olaf
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