Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Fri, 16 Jul 1999 23:33:17 +0200 (CEST) | | From | Rik van Riel <> | | Subject | Re: Memory hogs |
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On Fri, 16 Jul 1999, Rogier Wolff wrote:
[warning shot] > > That can be added without much effort. The real hard part has > > been in getting the 'task chooser' right... > > That really isn't easy. > > You're in a "we're completely out of memory" situation already, and > having the application clean up may mean it wants to rewrite its > config files. Requiring buffers and other resources.
Once you're completely out of memory, you're too late. We can simply start killing once we get very very near...
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