Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sun, 20 Aug 2000 19:28:35 -0700 | | From | David Ford <> | | Subject | Re: Out of memory? |
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Jesse Pollard wrote:
> It gets the process currently requesting memory. Nothing more. That process may > be init, if init is requesting memory (ie. fork/exec).
Which is "obviously incorrect" as it kills the wrong program nearly all the time. It's easy to make a data trail. Repetitively load a huge file into netscape. Nearly every time the wrong programs get killed and the system shortly becomes unusable.
-d
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