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Date:      Wed, 13 Apr 2005 05:02:02 +1000
From:      Peter Jeremy <PeterJeremy@optushome.com.au>
To:        ALeine <aleine@austrosearch.net>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: kernel killing processes when out of swap
Message-ID:  <20050412190202.GM89047@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <200504121224.j3CCOFXL019177@marlena.vvi.at>
References:  <200504121224.j3CCOFXL019177@marlena.vvi.at>

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On Tue, 2005-Apr-12 05:24:15 -0700, ALeine wrote:
> Having a flag to tag processes as vital to prevent them from getting
>killed (or to give them lower next-to-be-killed priority so that all non-vital
>processes get killed first) when you run out of swap would be a useful feature,
>what do you guys think?

This has been discussed to death before - look in the archives for
'SIGDANGER' (probably pre-mailman).

-- 
Peter Jeremy



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