Messages in this thread | | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: linux memory DOS | Date | 3 Sep 1999 07:06:57 GMT |
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Followup to: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9909022224480.18610-100000@zorro.pangea.ca> By author: Rene Chaddock <renec@zorro.adsl.pangea.ca> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > 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 >
Heuristic #1 should be that any process with IOPL should be dead last in kill priority. Perhaps root-owned processes should be allowed to set a "don't kill me no matter what" flag, too.
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