Re: [PATCH] VM fix for 2.4.0-test9 & OOM handler

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>]

On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Mark Hahn wrote:

> > feature. Rather introduce a orthogonal voluntary "importance" system-call,
> > which marks processes as more and less important. This is similar to
> > priority, it can only be decreased by ordinary users.
> 
> nice!  call it CAP_IMPORTANT ;)
> come to think of it, I'm not sure more than one bit would be terribly
> useful - no any sane person is going to spend time 
> sorting all their processes by importance...

well, this is like priorities, there is a default value, and i suspect
root-owned daemons such as sendmail should get a higher 'importance'
rating. This is not really directed towards ordinary users, it's rather
for the protection of system-critical daemons. Anyway, this pushes the
policy into user-space.

	Ingo

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