Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: A true story of a crash. | From | "Craig I. Hagan" <> | Date | 16 Aug 1998 23:47:55 -0400 |
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Matt Agler <matagl@sypher.com> writes:
> Actually, after looking at the init manpage, we don't need another > deamon. We've got init. There could be a new action called, say, nomem > to go right alongside powerfail and ctrlaltdel. While the kernel is > putting things to sleep to get the system under control, it could signal > init to run the nomem action for the current runlevel. > > This sounds very simple, elegant and configurable to me.
I like this, my worry would be that you would need to have enough memory to spawn the process. perhaps there could be some special fork/whatever set aside which grabs memory from a system hidey-hole rather than from the (now abused) swap.
-- craig
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