Date: 13 Jul 1999 15:11:26 -0400 From: rme@nightfly.apk.net (R. Matthew Emerson) To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Replacement for grep(1) (part 2) Message-ID: <87pv1wjrfl.fsf@nightfly.apk.net> In-Reply-To: "Brian F. Feldman"'s message of "Tue, 13 Jul 1999 14:47:20 -0400 (EDT)" References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9907131446351.86113-100000@janus.syracuse.net>
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"Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.org> writes: > But I have a valid point: can we do something better than posting a SIGKILL > to the largest process? If I remember correctly, AIX sends a signal to all processes asking them to free up memory. (Processes ignore this signal by default.) If nobody responds, then it selects a victim and blows it away. I think it is nice to processes that catch the signal and try to free up memory in that it won't kill them first. (What would you call such a signal, SIGDIET?) I guess memory overcommit is desirable in a "worse is better" kind of way, because it is clearly not "the right thing." :-( (see section 2.1 of http://naggum.no/worse-is-better.html) -matt [cc:'s trimmed] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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