Re: Replacement for grep(1) (part 2)

[R. Matthew Emerson]

"Brian F. Feldman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> But I have a valid point: can we do something better than posting a SIGKILL
> to the largest process?

If I remember correctly, AIX sends a signal to all processes asking
them to free up memory.  (Processes ignore this signal by default.) If
nobody responds, then it selects a victim and blows it away.  I think
it is nice to processes that catch the signal and try to free up
memory in that it won't kill them first.  (What would you call such a
signal, SIGDIET?)

I guess memory overcommit is desirable in a "worse is better" kind of
way, because it is clearly not "the right thing." :-( (see section 2.1
of http://naggum.no/worse-is-better.html)

-matt
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