Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 8 May 1997 20:45:13 -0400 | From | "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <> | Subject | Re: Out of memory kernel death |
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Date: Wed, 7 May 1997 16:56:02 -0500 (EST) From: James Mastros <root@epix.net>
Wouldn't killing off the process that has the lowest CPU use be best (other than processes 1-10, which are reserved, and currently all not terminatable without dire consiqunces), on the theory that it wasn't doing anything anyway? That should atleast give you enough memory to kill -HUP others instead of just destroying them.
Importance isn't related to how much CPU is being used. For example, "inetd" doesn't use much CPU, but doesn't have a PID under 10. Killing it would mean that you wouldn't be able to log in remotely to fix things.....
- Ted
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