Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 16 Jul 1999 15:34:27 +0200 (CEST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: Memory hogs |
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On Fri, 16 Jul 1999, Khimenko Victor wrote:
> > IMHO the behaviour to react on out of memory condition should be to kill > > the application that allocated most pages recently, and not randomly shoot at > > well-behaving apps. And second, the system should send a signal first, > > Greeaatt idea. Can you cook up patch or something ? Andrea > (andrea@suse.de) Rik (riel@nl.linux.org) and others tried really hard > to make things better but so far no really acceptable (for Linus :-) > solution was found AFAIK...
http://www.nl.linux.org/~riel/patches/
Please, somebody grab the OOM patch, integrate it into a new kernel and send it to Linus...
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