Re: Out of memory kernel deat

Thomas Koenig (ig25@mvmap66.ciw.uni-karlsruhe.de)
Mon, 12 May 1997 10:05:39 +0200 (MET DST)

I'd propose a fairly simple solution: send a SIGURG signal to
whatever process has a signal handler for it installed.

This process could then do whatever it wants to, such as allocating
more swap, killing off an errant process or send an E-Mail to
the admin to go out and buy more RAM.

Policy is for userland.

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Thomas Koenig, Thomas.Koenig@ciw.uni-karlsruhe.de, ig25@dkauni2.bitnet.
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