Re: Out of memory kernel deat

Mike Jagdis (mike@roan.co.uk)
Tue, 13 May 1997 09:12:21 +0100 (GMT/BST)


On Mon, 12 May 1997, Felix Schroeter wrote:

> I agree in this. But you should take care: If the system is badly in need
> of free memory, it may be the case that the user mode "free memory"
> daemon can't be paged in anymore.

If you want such a daemon it, obviously, should mlock itself down
and perhaps even run with a high SCHED_FIFO priority so when it
needs to run it gets to run.

Mike

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