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> Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br> wrote:
> > This is a completely separate issue, but a really neat
> > idea. However, this is not something that will be able
> > to run when the system has no more memory left ;)
>
> What not at 10% (or other specific limit) swap space
> remaining - I belive that was my original suggestion,
> and means that I CAN still run. And 100k of mlock()ed
> memory would be plenty to a) renice all other processes
> to 19 and b) send a little bit of X protocol to a currenlt running
> X server or c) chvt() to an unused VT and use a text-based
> What process do you want me to kill? dialog.
1. Because the difference between 90% and 100% used can be reached faster
than context switching.
2. reniceing doesn't recover memory.
3. root doesn't have authorization to access the X server under any
circumstances that root is NOT logged in on the X server.
3. No memory is available to chvt.
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Jesse I Pollard, II
Email: pollard@navo.hpc.mil
Any opinions expressed are solely my own.
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