Samuel Tardieu wrote:
"Pavel" == Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Pavel> That works okay on a PC, but try cellphone one day. Pavel> You want management app to close the least used Pavel> application. You do not want _kernel_ to select "who to send Pavel> SIGTERM to". That's why I would prefer that *all* processes receive the SIGDANGER/whatever (and of course ignore it by default). Only the management app would handle it in the case you describe and would select one or more applications to unload to free some memory.
It's still helpful to have two stages...one that all apps can listen to (and try to reduce their footprint if possible), and a second one that only the manager would handle (and would kill some suitable target). Finally, if all that fails then the kernel starts whacking things.
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