Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [discussion] Swap overcommitment recovery | Date | Tue, 18 Aug 1998 16:49:47 -0400 | From | Horst von Brand <> |
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Rik van Riel <H.H.vanRiel@phys.uu.nl> said: > On Tue, 18 Aug 1998, Itai Nahshon wrote:
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> > Really, programs which use the standard malloc calls cannot > > do much on SIGDANGER but to be nice and exit, or bee bad and > > keep all their resources.
> Sending SIGDANGER is a good idea. Not killing programs with > a SIGDANGER handler is, IMNSHO, a bad idea. We could give programs > which clean up 'on their own' a large bonus though (2x or 4x > less 'kill points').
OK, so a program does:
for(;;) { malloc(3Mb); free(2Mb); }
to save itself from being killed... -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand mailto:vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513
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