Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 7 May 1997 17:02:44 -0500 (EST) | From | James Mastros <> | Subject | Re: Out of memory kernel death |
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On Wed, 7 May 1997, bert hubert wrote:
> > On Wed, 7 May 1997, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote: > > > looks through the processes and kills off the largest one. > > This should be doable in Linux too... > > > > The problem is that the largest process is often the X server. Often > > this will indeed free a lot of memory, but it's not necessarily the best > > thing to do... > > This is getting uglier & uglier, but let's be pragmatic and make it kill > the largest process NOT called "X". > > bert hubert. >
Or ending in "d" (as in daemon)? Or before "e" except after "c", or when sounding like "ahy" as in "neighoubor" or "wheiy?" <SP>? Where does the uglyness stop? If we are going to do somthing like this, lets do it right. How does adding in "with no sub-processes" sound?
-=- James Mastros
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