Subject: Re: Regarding offloading IPv6 addrconf and ndisc

From: Hugo Santos <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2006 13:13:01 +0100

Jamal,

> nice to know ;-> At least you can protect some apps if you need to.
> Only racoon and quagga are important for me.
> But what happens then if you have a beast that just chews memory
> forever? I suppose other poor apps will just get shot.

   You should push QoS and differentiation into the memory-subsystem :-)
 Give a priority flag to mmap(). It's not simple to degrade existing
 allocations, but taking into consideration the OOM killer...

   Hugo