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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/8][for -mm] mem_notify v6
    On Tue 2008-02-19 09:00:08, Paul Jackson wrote:
    > Kosaki-san wrote:
    > > Thank you for wonderful interestings comment.
    >
    > You're most welcome. The pleasure is all mine.
    >
    > > you think kill the process just after swap, right?
    > > but unfortunately, almost user hope receive notification before swap ;-)
    > > because avoid swap.
    >
    > There is not much my customers HPC jobs can do with notification before
    > swap. Their jobs either have the main memory they need to perform the
    > requested calculations with the desired performance, or their job is
    > useless and should be killed. Unlike the applications you describe,
    > my customers jobs have no way, once running, to adapt to less
    > memory.

    Sounds like a job for memory limits (ulimit?), not for OOM
    notification, right?
    Pavel

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