Re: [RFC] Enabling other oom schemes

[Helge Hafting]

On Sat, Sep 13, 2003 at 08:55:50PM -0400, Robert Love wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-09-13 at 18:04, Helge Hafting wrote:
> 
> > So a "complicated" oom handler need to preallocate all the memory
> > it might ever need.  Not impossible.
> 
> Right.  I was just pointing it out.
> 
> Preallocating isn't necessarily possible e.g. you need something
> dynamically, need to call back into user-space, etc.
>
The userspace side is solvable by starting a userspace
oom handler that mlocks all the memory it
might ever need before it gets scarce.  It won't
need to run other programs - it can do anything
other programs do itself.

Helge Hafting 
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