On 16/03/2020 11.56, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
On 2020-03-15 23:17, Dave Howorth wrote:
I think you've missed Richmond's point. Switching to an existing shell still takes many minutes in such a situation. He's suggesting a new mechanism that allows such a thing, or creation of a new shell as well, even when memory is overloaded.
If switching alone is already taking too long, how could creating of a new shell plus switching to it be lighter for an overloaded system? It seems I really missed something.
No, the virtual terminal and shell would become high priority, and all graphical tasks would become tertiary and be swapped out and no cpu time allowed to them. If no way to know graphical tasks, then everything else but the emergency shell. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.1 x86_64 at Telcontar)