On 29 Oct 2000, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Raul Miller <moth@magenta.com> writes:
>
> > Can anyone tell me about the viability of a guarantee_memory() syscall?
> >
> > [I'm thinking: it would either kill the process, or allocate all virtual
> > memory needed for its shared libraries, buffers, allocated memory, etc.
> > Furthermore, it would render this process immune to the OOM killer,
> > unless it allocated further memory.]
>
> Except for the OOM killer semantics mlockall already exists.
More to the point, "immortality" is NOT a desirable "feature": the OOM
killer just kills things which must be killed to protect the overall
system. We'll have a finely adjustable memory killer daemon soon, which
will be a better solution.
James.
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