On Sat, 2011-10-15 at 14:55 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Josselin Mouette <j...@debian.org> writes: > > > Let me ask the question otherwise: what kind of information do you think > > is important enough to show to all logged users immediately? > > If the system runs out of memory and starts up the OOM killer, it would be > nice to find some way to give the user a dialog to let them know that's > happening so that they could, for example, close a large application > rather than letting the semi-random OOM killer decide to take out the X > server or something. (It may have gotten better.) > > > Failing hardware? Depending on the setup you might want to warn a system > > administrator rather than users, but that’s indeed a case to consider. > > That's the main one that I'd worry about. Also overheating warnings, for > which even the home user can do something immediately.
The user generally can't even read the warning in time to make a
decision; the system must handle OOM or over-temperature quickly.
However, the user should be notified about that decision, if possible.
Ben.
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Ben Hutchings
Experience is directly proportional to the value of equipment destroyed.
- Carolyn Scheppner
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