Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 08 May 1997 18:05:27 -0400 | From | The SethMeister <> | Subject | Re: Out of memory kernel death |
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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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