On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, James Sutherland wrote:

Which begs the question, where did the userspace OOM policy daemon go? It,
coupled with Rik's simple in-kernel last-ditch handler, should cover most
eventualities without the need for nasty kernel kludges.

I agree. Possibly with help to the user-space OOM thing. We should
probably implement the same SIGDANGER that some other Unixes have, and
then anybody can implement their own low-on-memory thing by having a
user-mode server that does a mlockall() and reacts to SIGDANGER by
spraying anything it wants with kill(9)'s.

		Linus

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