KS2007: Memory management & application notification of low memory [LWN.net]

KS2007: Memory management & application notification of low memory

Posted Sep 20, 2007 11:20 UTC (Thu) by renox (guest, #23785)
In reply to: KS2007: Memory management & application notification of low memory by vomlehn
Parent article: KS2007: Memory management

>>The claim is that application developers will tend to avoid application notification of low memory conditions as it would be a Linux-specific extension.<<

Note that a low memory condition doesn't have to be handled by the application developer to be useful:
http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/2391 points to an article where a researcher patched a JVM GC, and a Linux kernel(2.4) VM so that they discuss, with the result that they have a GC which works well even under memory pressure, all this without application developer lifting one finger :-)

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