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+[[!meta title="Linux: vmsig"]]
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+[[!tag open_issue_gnumach open_issue_hurd]]
+
+  * *cooperating with the VM when memory pressure increases*
+
+  * *notify user applications of virtual memory events via real-time signals*
+
+<http://www.cs.umass.edu/~emery/pubs/bookmarking-collector/>, and discussion at
+<http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/2391> and
+<http://marc.info/?t=113269321800003&r=1&w=2>.
+
+Found this via <http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/4094#comment-62100>, which
+was linked from [LWN](http://lwn.net/Articles/409416/).
+
+From a quick glance, this sounds to [[me|tschwinge]] quite a bit like
+mechanisms also found in (originating in?) Mach's
+[[microkernel/mach/external_pager_mechanism]].  May be worth having a look at
+it.