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On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, Rik van Riel wrote: > > >Well, besides this AOL block, there's some actual code > What does it mean AOL ;-)? ??? AOL ... remember seeing it on the box ... ??? :-) > >on my homepage. This code chooses which process to kill. > Does we really need a kernel thread to kill a process when it goes out of > memory? No we don't. It's not in a thread at all, it's just extra code that runs in the context of kswapd... Rik. +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Linux memory management tour guide. H.H.vanRiel@phys.uu.nl | | Scouting Vries cubscout leader. http://www.phys.uu.nl/~riel/ | +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu | ||||||||||||
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