Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 6 Mar 2000 02:49:25 -0500 | From | James Manning <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.2.15pre12 [VM fixes] |
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[ 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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