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> 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!


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