Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 18 Oct 2007 17:18:57 -0400 | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: OOM notifications |
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On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 23:06:52 +0200 Rene Herman <rene.herman@keyaccess.nl> wrote:
> They don't -- that's why I asked if you need both scenario's active > at the same time. SIGDANGER would just be SIGPLEASEFREEALLYOUCAN with > the operator deciding through setting the level at which point > applications get it. > > Or put differently; what's the additional value of notifying an > application that the system is about to go balistic when you've > already asked it to free all it could earlier? SIGSEEDAMNITITOLDYOUSO?
The first threshold - "we are about to swap" - means the application frees memory that it can. Eg. free()d memory that glibc has not yet given back to the kernel, or JVM running the garbage collector, or ...
The second threshold - "we are out of memory" - means that the first approach has failed and the system needs to do something else. On an embedded system, I would expect some application to exit or maybe restart itself.
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