Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Ideas for the oom problem | Date | Wed, 28 Mar 2001 09:38:04 -0500 | From | Hacksaw <> |
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> a. don't kill any task with a uid < 100 > > b. if uid between 100 to 500 or CAP-SYS equivalent enabled > set it too a lower priority, so if it is at fault it will happen slower > giving more time before the system collapses
Deciding what not to kill based on who started it seems like a bad idea. Root can start netscape just as easily as any user, but if the choice of processes to kill is root's netscape or a user's experimental database, I'd want the netscape to go away.
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