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For the record, this same thing happened to me two days ago. X->pico. Maybe
my fault for pico(ing) a 120M file (bash autocomplete mishap).

Matthew

On Thu, 02 Sep 1999, Rene Chaddock wrote:
> Just for the record, my computer went down because it ran out of memory
> today. I guess it killed a few things before it chanced on X (which killed
> pico, which was what had used the remaining 15 megs..) , because logging
> in again froze up the machine.. thats no good.
>
> Rene
>
> On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Rik van Riel wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Alan Cox wrote:
> >
> > > > > However, every time I proposed it on this list it has gone down
> > > > > in a salvo of flames. And I have enough disk for swap now so I
> > > > > don't really care enough any more to fight that kind of resistance
> > > > > again.
> > > >
> > > > I'm all for it going into the main kernel tree, for what its worth.
> > >
> > > I don't think its the Right answer, but its certain a right
> > > answer. Lets see if we can get the Beancounter work Andrey
> > > Savochkin has been doing into 2.4.
> >
> > We probably want both in. The beancounter stuff can prevent
> > a lot of DoS emergency situations and the program killer is
> > able to get the machine back to work with minimal damage in
> > the rare situations that it gets out of hand.
> >
> > Rik
> > --
> > The Internet is not a network of computers. It is a network
> > of people. That is its real strength.
> > --
> > work at: http://www.reseau.nl/
> > home at: http://www.nl.linux.org/~riel/
> >
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