This message generated a parse failure. Raw output follows here. Please use 'back' to navigate. From devnull@lkml.org Fri Apr 26 13:31:44 2024 Received: from spaans.ds9a.nl (adsl-xs4all.ds9a.nl [213.84.159.51]) by kylie.puddingonline.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id g8HKR6i24511 for ; Tue, 17 Sep 2002 22:27:06 +0200 Received: (qmail 24319 invoked from network); 17 Sep 2002 20:10:37 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO spaans.ds9a.nl) (3ffe:8280:10:360:202:44ff:fe2a:a1dd) by mayo.ipv6.ds9a.nl with SMTP; 17 Sep 2002 20:10:37 -0000 Received: (qmail 19798 invoked by uid 1000); 17 Sep 2002 19:44:50 -0000 MBOX-Line: From linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Oct 10 07:21:14 2000 Received: (maildatabase); juh Received: (qmail 813 invoked by alias); 10 Oct 2000 06:56:08 -0000 Received: (qmail 631 invoked from network); 10 Oct 2000 06:47:08 -0000 Received: from server.ds9a.tudelft.nl (HELO home.ds9a.nl) (10.0.0.1) by spaans.ds9a.nl with SMTP; 10 Oct 2000 06:47:08 -0000 Received: (qmail 11116 invoked by uid 0); 9 Oct 2000 22:41:37 -0000 Received: from vger.kernel.org (199.183.24.194) by home.ds9a.nl with SMTP; 9 Oct 2000 22:41:37 -0000 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 9 Oct 2000 17:59:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 9 Oct 2000 17:59:28 -0400 Received: from mail2.digital.com ([204.123.2.56]:64272 "EHLO mail2.digital.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id convert rfc822-to-8bit; Mon, 9 Oct 2000 17:58:52 -0400 Received: from pachyderm.pa.dec.com (pachyderm.pa.dec.com [16.4.16.23]) by mail2.digital.com (8.9.2/8.9.3/WV2.0h) with ESMTP id OAA09112; Mon, 9 Oct 2000 14:44:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: by pachyderm.pa.dec.com; id OAA02051; Mon, 9 Oct 2000 14:44:48 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2000 14:44:48 -0700 (PDT) From: jg@pa.dec.com (Jim Gettys) Message-Id: <200010092144.OAA02051@pachyderm.pa.dec.com> X-Mailer: Pachyderm (client pachyderm.pa-x.dec.com, user jg) To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Alan Cox , Jim Gettys , Andi Kleen , Ingo Molnar , Andrea Arcangeli , Rik van Riel , Byron Stanoszek , MM mailing list < In-Reply-To: Subject: Re: [PATCH] VM fix for 2.4.0-test9 & OOM handler Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2000 14:38:10 -0700 (PDT), Linus Torvalds said: > > The problem is that there is no way to keep track of them afterwards. > > So the process that gave X the bitmap dies. What now? Are we going to > depend on X un-counting the resources? > X has to uncount the resources already, to free the memory in the X server allocated on behalf of that client. X has to get this right, to be a long lived server (properly debugged X servers last many months without problems: unfortunately, a fair number of DDX's are buggy). - Jim -- Jim Gettys Technology and Corporate Development Compaq Computer Corporation jg@pa.dec.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/