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SubjectRe: linux memory DOS
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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.

-hpa
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