Re: Out of memory kernel deat
Keith Rohrer (kwrohrer@uiuc.edu)
Tue, 13 May 1997 04:41:45 -0500 (CDT)
> 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.
Actually, it shouldn't need to run at all unless just about everyone is
blocked trying to swap; it will already likely have a high scheduling
priority because it won't run often or for long. So I don't see the
need to fiddle the priority...but mlockall() would be a good thing!
Keith