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    SubjectRe: Out of memory kernel death
    At 08:39 PM 5/7/97 +0100, you wrote:
    >> I also read the FreeBSD sourcecode, and saw a (somewhat)
    >> elegant solution for this. If FreeBSD is out of memory, it
    >> looks through the processes and kills off the largest one.
    >> This should be doable in Linux too...
    >
    >Oh dear. My largest process is the X server. On servers its probably
    >stuff like web engines and database processes - just the stuff you don't
    >want to hit!

    What about the situation in which the largest process is your login shell?
    If it kills it and then more memory gets eaten, how does one recover?

    _Seth

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