Locking kdecore into memory

[Gary L. Greene, Jr.]

On Monday 22 January 2007 02:31, subbukk wrote:
> On Monday 22 January 2007 05:31, Stefan Teleman wrote:
> > On Sunday 21 January 2007 17:25, Richard Moore wrote:
> > > On 1/21/07, Lubos Lunak <l.lunak at suse.cz> wrote:
> > >
> > > So we have some sort of kdeinit like process that runs setuid and
> > > calls mlockall()? That would be able to lock the libraries into ram
> > > I guess. To be useful though, how much would we have to lock?
> > > kdecore, kdelibs, qt, X11 and libc I guess. That's quite a bit.
> >
> > A lot. :-)
>
[snip]
> I don't think the case for overriding the vm paging logic is sufficiently
> strong. It goes against the Separation of Concerns Principle in design.
> If Linux OOM logic is weak, it would be better to get it fixed than to
> have KDE work guess around it.
>
> Subbu

Subbu, there is a little fallacy in your logic here. Lubos _has_ talked with 
Kernel hackers about getting the OOM fixed, and they plain aren't interested 
in fixing it as stated by him before on this list. This is WHY there is this 
discussion about what to do about it. While I agree that having much of the 
core locked in memory would drastically up the amount of RAM needed to run 
KDE on a daily level, I do agree that having a working task manager at all 
times would be nice, since I've had several cases where my system started 
spinning its wheels and locking up the UI so badly, that I couldn't use the 
system, let alone kill the processes, and had to restart X11 and KDE when the 
OOM killer killed X instead of the process that actually was the culprit 
(incidentally, building OO.org is one of the culprits with having only 512MB 
of RAM installed on a system....)

-- 
Gary L. Greene, Jr.
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