Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 10 Oct 2000 11:41:39 -0700 | From | Miles Lane <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] VM fix for 2.4.0-test9 & OOM handler |
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Olaf Titz wrote: > > > > Still, it would be nice to recover that 4 MB when the system > > > doesn't have any memory left. > > Yup. The X server could give back the memory for some cases like the > > background without too much hackery. > > Then Linux only needs to implement SIGDANGER, which has been talked > about for years... > > X would be a good candidate to implement a handler for it. Others are > Emacs, Mozilla or JVMs - basically everything which has a GC of some > sort. It could even be used to implement a configurable user mode OOM > killer.
It would be good to talk to the KDE and Gnome folks about this as well. I am pretty sure they have large blocks of memory that could be flushed or freed in a low-memory or OOM condition.
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