Sergey Babkin wrote:
>
> > It would be nice to have a way to indicate that, a la SIGDANGER.
>
> Another option may be to add something like "importance classes".
> Suppose we assign an one-byte "importance level" to each process.
> When we get out of swap we start killing processes with the lowest
> importance level. This seems to be both easy to implement and
> a rather robust solution.
This is as easy to do as setting limits, which has the added benefit
of not having any process killed.
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