Making KMemoryInfo useful (Re: KDE/kdelibs/kdecore)

[Lubos Lunak]

On Saturday 20 of March 2010, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 08:54:59PM +0100, Lubos Lunak wrote:
> >  Any problems with that?
>
> an obvious problem of this simple implementation is that one application
> requesting 300m will make *every* listening application try to free up
> 300m.

 No, I didn't say anywhere that those two amount numbers must be the same.

> this needs some arbitrating instance (either a daemon or some more
> functionality in the lib itself). also, priorities are needed, including
> dynamic priorities (e.g., lower priority when unfocused and idle).
> i think symbian has such a system.
> i think you want to propose a freedesktop standard. didn't somebody
> already do that? :)

 No, I think I ideally want the kernel to handle that.

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 Lubos Lunak
 openSUSE Boosters team, KDE developer
 l.lunak at suse.cz , l.lunak at kde.org