Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 14:11:32 -0300 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@tcoip.com.br> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Cc: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>, Juli Mallett <jmallett@FreeBSD.org>, Eivind Eklund <eivind@FreeBSD.org>, Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com>, David Schultz <das@FreeBSD.org>, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/vm ... SIGDANGER Message-ID: <3E720D44.6010300@tcoip.com.br> In-Reply-To: <7901.1047661770@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <7901.1047661770@critter.freebsd.dk>
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Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>
> * Fourth: A cheap syscall or sysctl which can be used to get a real-time
> qualified answer to the simple question: Is the system short of RAM ?
>
> Many programs (directly or implicitly through the use of malloc(3))
> can adapt their behaviour, but lack the means to when to do that.
That's a suggested use for SIGDANGER, actually. Still bad for the
programs that get killed. :-)
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