[haiku-bugs] Re: [Haiku] #7976: Improve memory exhaustion process
- From: "axeld" <trac@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 17:41:31 -0000
#7976: Improve memory exhaustion process
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Reporter: kallisti5 | Owner: axeld
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: R1
Component: System/Kernel | Version: R1/Development
Resolution: | Keywords:
Blocked By: | Blocking:
Has a Patch: 0 | Platform: All
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Comment (by axeld):
If you ran out of memory, it's actually sane to not start new processes in
favor of killing some random team. Besides yet, yes, we don't take such
drastic measurements yet, and our low memory handling could surely be
further improved.
I'm not sure it's a good idea to randomly kill teams (or rather, I
definitely know it's a bad idea, it's just the question of what
alternatives you have). One way to deal with things like these is to
notify the userland from the problem, and let it deal by taking down not
so important services (and also notifying the user) -- unless you
currently record something, this could be the media server, for example.
Or player only apps like MediaPlayer or ShowImage.
Once we have proper session management in place, a good alternative would
be to just quit non-used applications that could be relaunched as they
were when needed or possible.
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