Re: lowmemory android driver not needed?

[MinChan Kim]

Last time,  it seems my mail is lost.
My mail is mangled by web mail(gmail) which change my mail's base encoding type.

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 7:48 PM, Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > Alan, does this sound like it should remain in the tree?
>>
>> Maybe our oom killer should get a new tunable, telling it how
>> aggressive it should be, instead?
>
> I was thinking that, and it would integrate better with the OLPC work
> (which IMHO is a nicer interface for some stuff)
>
> You'd want two thresholds
>
> The 'arghhhh....' point where you start killing stuff
> The 'uh oh...' point where an OLPC style low memory notifier kicks in
>
> (OLPC's model is a handle you can select/poll for 'memory getting low' so
> apps can respond to pressure by doing stuff like dumping caches)

I guess OLPC model is similar to mem_notify.
Last year, Kosaki-san made mem_notify patch series.
It may help this situation.

http://lwn.net/Articles/268732/


> The rest ought to follow naturally IFF you can find a clean efficient way
> to measure that pressure and quantify it as a number. Our default would
> be like now, the Android default might be to trigger earlier..
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