Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262788AbUKRRSh (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Nov 2004 12:18:37 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262791AbUKRRRa (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Nov 2004 12:17:30 -0500 Received: from mail.euroweb.hu ([193.226.220.4]:40622 "HELO mail.euroweb.hu") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S262788AbUKRROW (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Nov 2004 12:14:22 -0500 To: hbryan@us.ibm.com CC: akpm@osdl.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, pavel@ucw.cz, torvalds@osdl.org In-reply-to: (message from Bryan Henderson on Thu, 18 Nov 2004 09:00:36 -0800) Subject: Re: [PATCH] [Request for inclusion] Filesystem in Userspace References: Message-Id: From: Miklos Szeredi Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 18:14:15 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 608 Lines: 16 > I don't see how the OOM killer can help you here. The OOM killer deals > with the system being out of virtual memory; What? I think you are confusing something. I'm not an expert, but I think usually you have lot's of virtual memory (4Gbyte per process), so killing off processes to get more of it makes no sense. Please corrent me if I'm wrong. Miklos - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/