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Message-ID: <4717D9BF.4010508@redhat.com>
Date:	Thu, 18 Oct 2007 15:10:07 -0700
From:	Ulrich Drepper <drepper@...hat.com>
To:	Rene Herman <rene.herman@...access.nl>
CC:	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@...ck.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: OOM notifications

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Rene Herman wrote:
> That first threshold sounds fine yes. To me, the second mostly sounds
> like a job for SIGTERM though.

I agree.  Applications shouldn't be expected to be yet more complicated
and have different levels of low memory handling.  You might want to
give a process a second shot at handling SIGDANGER but after that's it's
all about preparation for a shutdown.

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➧ Ulrich Drepper ➧ Red Hat, Inc. ➧ 444 Castro St ➧ Mountain View, CA ❖
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