At 3:41 PM -0500 on 3/12/00, Adam wrote:
>> Rik's OOM patch:
>> You have a file with holes or other compression. When you try to
>> write to this, the kernel searches for junk files. It finds core
>> files, /tmp files, emacs backup files, *.o files...
>
>Problem is that one's thing junk is other person's valuable thing.
>
>If I run some web server, the 'httpd's are the most imporant thing,
>and it is thing which I least want to get killed.
>
>On the other hand if I run some important simulation, I'll be willing
>to let daemons like sendmail or http die in hopes the simulation
>finish.
I'll bring back up memory priorities here... they would solve this.
They're exactly what you're asking for. And someday hopefully I'll have
the time to write the code :)
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