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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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