Re: VM nuisance

[Justin A]

On Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 10:45:40AM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Aug 2001, Maciej Zenczykowski wrote:
> 
> > How about adding some sort of per-process priority (i.e. a la nice) which
> 
> That's not the problem. The killing itself is going
> pretty well.
> 
> The problem is to decide WHEN to kill a process.
> 
> regards,
> 
> Rik

Though it is not a complete solution for all cases(servers etc),
could a SysReq combination be added that triggers OOM?  I'm sure many
people use SysReq-k on occasion to get a system out of endless
swapping,  I think having a SysReq key for OOM would be a great
improvement.

Comments?
-Justin