[Bug 70637] Re: BugBuddy should not run if the system is swapping

Steve Alexander steve.alexander at canonical.com
Wed Nov 8 08:34:41 UTC 2006


I'm not really aware of how bug-buddy works.  I don't know what signal
was sent to the application process, all I know is that the application
crashed while the system was swapping a lot.  What signal does a program
receive when it can't allocate memory?  Or does that depend what
language it is written in, and whether the author has been careful to
check the results of malloc?

In my imagination, bug-buddy would ask the OS whether the system is
swapping.  Then, if the system is swapping, it would not attach gdb to
the application process, and instead let the process swiftly die.

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BugBuddy should not run if the system is swapping
https://launchpad.net/bugs/70637




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