2008/7/2 Igor Stasenko siguctua@gmail.com:
Oh, and i forgot to add: - signaling a low space semaphore awakes process which kindly asking user to stop play stupid and do something before it will be too late.
A 'memory policy' scheme , which i described before is exactly for the cases, when its too late to let the user decide what to do. Its when you have only two choices left: kill something, or kill VM.