> I'd tried to advocate SIGDANGER some years ago as well, but none of > the kernel maintainers were interested. It definitely makes sense > to have some sort of mechanism like this. At the time I first brought > it up it was in conjunction with Netscape using too much cache on some > system, but it would be just as useful for all kinds of other memory- > hungry applications.
There is an early thread for a /proc file which you can add to your poll() set and it will wake people when memory is low. Very elegant and if async support is added it will also give you the signal variant for free. Alan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
