Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Out of memory kernel death | From | Peter Mutsaers <> | Date | 12 May 1997 11:56:00 +0200 |
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>> On Wed, 7 May 1997 09:43:54 -0400, "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@MIT.EDU> said:
TYT> From: Rik van Riel <Rik.vanRiel@phil.ruu.nl> TYT> Date: Tue, 6 May 1997 15:24:43 +0200 (MET DST)
TYT> I read this thread and linux does indead have this problem. TYT> I also read the FreeBSD sourcecode, and saw a (somewhat) TYT> elegant solution for this. If FreeBSD is out of memory, it TYT> looks through the processes and kills off the largest one. TYT> This should be doable in Linux too...
TYT> The problem is that the largest process is often the X TYT> server. Often this will indeed free a lot of memory, but TYT> it's not necessarily the best thing to do...
In the case of protection against a run-away process often this process will be the largest one. In those cases, it will help.
-- Peter Mutsaers Lucent Technologies, Network Systems plm@lucent.com Huizen, the Netherlands
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