Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 16 Jun 1998 01:25:02 +0200 (CEST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: Swap signature eaten by 2.1.105 |
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On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, Rik van Riel wrote: > > >Well, besides this AOL block, there's some actual code > What does it mean AOL ;-)?
??? AOL ... remember seeing it on the box ... ??? :-)
> >on my homepage. This code chooses which process to kill. > Does we really need a kernel thread to kill a process when it goes out of > memory?
No we don't. It's not in a thread at all, it's just extra code that runs in the context of kswapd...
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