[Sugar-devel] Killing activities when memory gets short

[Gary Martin]

On 11 Aug 2010, at 18:42, Paul Fox <pgf at laptop.org> wrote:

> gary wrote:
>> 
>> P.S. of corse you'll now tell me os850 was also pre-linked (I couldn't see 
>> anything about it in the build notes for either os850 or os851), and I'll look 
>> silly for trying to test for a difference, confirming my results were non 
>> significant ;-)
> 
> that's exactly right.  :-)
> 
> pre-linking has been in the builds for some time, i believe.

Lol! :-) At least it's nice to know that the usual OOM behaviour is that the just launched activity is the one that gets it in the neck, most of the time. Pity about the lockup that usually happens before the kill, is it possible to make the OOM happen at a higher free mem threshold? 

--Gary

> paul
> =---------------------
> paul fox, pgf at laptop.org