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    SubjectRe: Out of memory kernel death
     <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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