Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Tue, 13 May 1997 12:49:05 -0500 (CDT) | From | "Tim P. Gerla" <> | Subject | Re: Out of memory kernel death (fwd) |
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On Sat, 10 May 1997, Jim Nance wrote:
> > The policy I prefer is to kill things based on their age, youngest > first, perhaps excluding processes that are very small or owned by root. > This has two features that I think are important. The first is that X > clients will die before the X server. The second stems from the kind of > jobs I typically run. These are large CAD jobs that take several hundred > Meg of ram and can run for several days. The last thing I want to happen > after 20 hours of runtime is for someone to login to the machine and > fire up netscape and have it kill my CAD job because it needs more memory. > If I was there first I should get priority. > How about a bunch of stuff in the config programs (make config, menuconfig, etc..) to allow the user to specify the criteria for process killing? :)
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