[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] [[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] [[!meta title="Linux: vmsig"]] [[!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.