Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 01 Jun 1999 19:06:06 -0000 | From | pedietz@west ... | Subject | Re: Out of memory kernel death |
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<pine.lnx.3.91.970507215227.6076c-10000-@vvtp.tn.tudelft.nl> wrote: Original Article: http://www.egroups.com/group/linux-kernel/?start=11130 > > On Wed, 7 May 1997, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote: > > > looks through the processes and kills off the largest one. > > This should be doable in Linux too... > > > > The problem is that the largest process is often the X server. Often > > this will indeed free a lot of memory, but it's not necessarily the best > > thing to do... > > This is getting uglier & uglier, but let's be pragmatic and make it kill > the largest process NOT called "X". > > bert hubert.
I am in the school that all program's running should have their own uid other than root.
I propose that the X server run as user 'inittab' or 'rc.d'. With this proposal one could make up a rule that says "kill the largest process not owned by root and not owned by inittab."
Reason being: Processes installed in the inittab are generally more stable than those being run manually by a user...
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