Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 25 Sep 2000 20:21:43 +0100 | From | "Stephen C. Tweedie" <> | Subject | Re: the new VMt |
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Hi,
On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 08:09:31PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > > Indeed. But we wont fail the kmalloc with a NULL return > > > > Isn't that the preferred behaviour, though? If we are completely out > > of VM on a no-swap machine, we should be killing one of the existing > > processes rather than preventing any progress and keeping all of the > > old tasks alive but deadlocked. > > Unless Im missing something we wont kill any task in that condition - even > a SIGKILL will make no odds as everyone is asleep in kmalloc
Right. Eeek.
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