[olpc-software] graceful handling of out-of-memory conditions

[Ronald G Minnich]

Joshua N Pritikin wrote:

> But still, I don't see what this gains over Jim's proposal of training
> the window manager preload the OOM priority into the kernel well before
> there is any danger of OOM.
> 
> It's hard to imagine a simpler solution.
> 

It doesn't have anything over having the window manager do it, except: 
it doesn't need a window manager to work. Not an issue for OLPC.

ron