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    SubjectRe: Linux 2.2.15pre12 [VM fixes]
    [ Monday, March  6, 2000 ] Mike A. Harris wrote:
    > On Sun, 5 Mar 2000, James Manning wrote:
    > >If the case isn't this clear-cut, though, I think killing by pid
    > >(highest->lowest) may be a decent hueristic since the most important
    > >processes (init, loggers, etc) tend to be long-running ones started
    > >early so they maintain pid's < 100.
    >
    > Maybe 15 years ago. I'm running RedHat 6.1, and after the system
    > starts up most persistant daemons have PID's in the 300-1000
    > range. I would suspect it would be similar for other dists as
    > well.

    my point being that since they started up before other things their
    pid's will be lower. Yes pid's can wrap, but that's why it's called
    a heuristic. Did you actually have anything useful to say?

    James

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