shrinking memory consumptions

[Jim Gettys]

Ivan, think about defense in depth....

Say we get a sigdanger and/or a file to poll on.  I expect we will, and
it will help.  To what degree, we don't know.

There are circumstances that *will* fail.

We should still be setting OOM priorities, and we should still be
warning applications in time to save state.

Having OOM shoot really key processes because it doesn't know better is
a total lose.
                                  - Jim

On Tue, 2007-04-03 at 11:08 -0400, Ivan Krstić wrote:
> Joshua N Pritikin wrote:
> > I floated a patch for sugar in Feb:
> > However, it wasn't applied because setting oom_adj requires 
> > capable(CAP_SYS_RESOURCE) and Marco wasn't sure how to arrange for it.
> 
> As I've tried to point out, I consider that the wrong approach anyway.
> 
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Jim Gettys
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