Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 10 Oct 2000 11:46:23 +0200 | From | Jamie Lokier <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] VM fix for 2.4.0-test9 & OOM handler |
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Albert D. Cahalan wrote: > X, and any other big friendly processes, could participate in > memory balancing operations. X could be made to clean out a > font cache when the kernel signals that memory is low. When > the situation becomes serious, X could just mmap /dev/zero over > top of the background image.
Haven't we already had this discussion? Quite a lot of programs have cached data (X fonts, Netscape (lots!)), GC-able data (Emacs, Java etc.), data that can simply be discarded (X window backing stores), or data that can be written to disk on demand (Netscape again).
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