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From: Peter Jeremy <PeterJeremy@optushome.com.au>
To: ALeine <aleine@austrosearch.net>
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Subject: Re: kernel killing processes when out of swap
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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).

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Peter Jeremy