Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 25 Sep 2000 16:27:24 +0200 (CEST) | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: the new VM |
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On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> I'm not sure if we should restrict the limiting only to the cases that > needs them. For example do_anonymous_page looks a place that could > rely on the GFP retval.
i think an application should not fail due to other applications allocating too much RAM. OOM behavior should be a central thing and based on allocation patterns, not pure luck or unluck. I always found it rude to SIGBUS when some other application is abusing RAM but the oom detector has not yet killed it off.
Ingo
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