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Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 10:03:28 -0400
From: Mauricio Lin <mauriciolin@gmail.com>
Reply-To: Mauricio Lin <mauriciolin@gmail.com>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
Subject: Re: User space out of memory approach
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Hi Andrea,

On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 01:49:01 +0100, Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 08:11:19PM -0400, Mauricio Lin wrote:
> > Sometimes the first application to be killed is XFree. AFAIK the
> 
> This makes more sense now. You need somebody trapping sigterm in order
> to lockup and X sure traps it to recover the text console.
> 
> Can you replace this:
> 
>         if (cap_t(p->cap_effective) & CAP_TO_MASK(CAP_SYS_RAWIO)) {
>                 force_sig(SIGTERM, p);
>         } else {
>                 force_sig(SIGKILL, p);
>         }
> 
> with this?

OK, let me test it. If I get some news, I will let you know.

> 
>         force_sig(SIGKILL, p);
> 
> in mm/oom_kill.c.

BR,

Mauricio Lin.
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