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On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 23:40:11 +0000 David Morgan <david.morgan@×××××.com> |
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| Since when is a machine with 256MB "low on ram"? (it's also a P4, |
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| though only 1.8GHz, but that's not really relevant) |
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That's very relevant. If you were on a sparc32 box I could understand |
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256MBytes RAM, but on a GHz+ machine??? |
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| > Naah, I'd go for the warning with maybe an ebeep. If you really must |
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| > have a force thingie, it shouldn't be a USE flag, since USE flags |
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| > are for things which affect the resultant program |
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| The idea isn't to have a USE flag, but to do something like in the |
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| xorg-x11-6.8.0-r{2,4} ebuilds: |
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<snip> |
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| Except that it only fails if they don't have enough memory and if the |
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| variable isn't set. It's a nasty solution, but it can potentially stop |
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| bug reports about X randomly being killed. (After all, there's a high |
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| chance that someone won't notice any other sort of warning, beep or |
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| no) |
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I'm reaaallllllly not a fan of hacks like that. If the user has kill on |
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OOM turned on then they should expect to have processes zapped if they |
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run out of memory. |
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Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Fluxbox, Sparc, Mips) |
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Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org |
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Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm |
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