Messages in this thread | | | From | Samuel Tardieu <> | Subject | Re: OOM notifications | Date | Fri, 19 Oct 2007 17:18:06 +0200 |
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>>>>> "Pavel" == Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> writes:
Pavel> That works okay on a PC, but try cellphone one day.
Pavel> You want management app to close the least used Pavel> application. You do not want _kernel_ to select "who to send Pavel> SIGTERM to".
That's why I would prefer that *all* processes receive the SIGDANGER/whatever (and of course ignore it by default). Only the management app would handle it in the case you describe and would select one or more applications to unload to free some memory.
Sam -- Samuel Tardieu -- sam@rfc1149.net -- http://www.rfc1149.net/
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