Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 15 Aug 1998 17:40:28 -0400 (EDT) | From | AndroSyn <> | Subject | Re: A true story of a crash. |
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On Sat, 15 Aug 1998 linker@z.ml.org wrote:
> > If all the fancy kill rules are too complicated then just killing all user > tasks would be better then the current situation.. Once the system is out > of ram you might as well hit reset, so killing the user tasks would be > better. > The old KISS principle...Having a locked system and the admin 2 hours away could be a definite problem....If you kill all users tasks(have init go down to single user and back to multiuser, you at least have a chance of the system stablizing itself. Sure a few connections get dropped to various daemons, but isn't this a bit better than no connections until whoever realizes the reset button needs pressed....
Aaron
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