Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 25 Sep 2000 17:10:43 +0200 (CEST) | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: the new VM |
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On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> Signal can be trapped and ignored by malicious task. [...]
a SIGKILL? i agree with the 2.2 solution - first a soft signal, and if it's being ignored then a SIGKILL.
> But my question isn't what you do when you're OOM, but is _how_ do you > notice that you're OOM?
good question :-)
> In the GFP_USER case simply checking when GFP fails looks right to me.
i think the GFP_USER case should do the oom logic within __alloc_pages(), by SIGTERM/SIGKILL-ing off abusive processes. Ie. it's *still* an infinite loop (barring the case where *this* process is abusive, but thats a detail).
Ingo
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