Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 28 Mar 2001 17:56:47 +0200 | | From | Andreas Rogge <> | | Subject | Re: Ideas for the oom problem |
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--On Wednesday, March 28, 2001 09:38:04 -0500 Hacksaw <hacksaw@hacksaw.org> wrote: > Deciding what not to kill based on who started it seems like a bad idea. > Root can start netscape just as easily as any user, but if the choice of > processes to kill is root's netscape or a user's experimental database, > I'd want the netscape to go away.
root does not use netscape -FULLSTOP-
Anyone working as root is (sorry) an idiot! root's processes are normally quite system-relevant and so they should never be killed, if we can avoid it. There can however be processes owned by other users which shouldn't be killed in OOM-Situation, but generally root's processes are more important than a normal user's processes. What about doing something really critical to avoid the upcoming OOM-situ and get your shell killed because you were to slow?
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