From: Mark Acosta (macosta++at++magic-earth.com)
Date: 02/07/2001 14:48:08
Yair,
Great! This looks like what I need. One question though. Do you know
whether PFNFY_RESOURCE is used for anything else besides out of memory
conditions?
Mark Acosta
Magic Earth, Inc.
-----Original Message-----
From: yair++at++polygon.engr.sgi.com [mailto:yair++at++polygon.engr.sgi.com]
Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2001 3:35 PM
To: macosta++at++magic-earth.com
Cc: info-performer++at++sgi.com
Subject: Re: Performer out of memory behavior
Hello Mark !
> Performer has the annoying behavior of exiting when it can't honor a
> memory request out of shared memory. Is there any way to change this
> behavior like having it return NULL or calling a callback notifying the
> application that it failed? At the very least I'd like something that
would
> let me take some action before Performer kills the program. Thanks.
When running out of memory, Performer calls
pfNotify(PFNFY_FATAL, PFNFY_RESOURCE, ...
The default pfNotify handler exits on PFNFY_FATAL. You can replace it with
a more mellow handler (man pfNotifyHandler). You can then take the required
action before calling exit or return normally and expect NULL as the
pfMalloc
result.
-yair
--
\_________ \_____ \__ \__ \_____ Yair Kurzion
\_________ \_____ \__ \__ \_____ yair++at++sgi.com
\__ \__ \____\__ \__ http://reality.sgi.com/yair
\__ \__ \__ Work: (650) 933-6502
\__ \__ \__ Home: (408) 226-9771
\__ \__ \__
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Wed Feb 07 2001 - 14:47:44 PST