Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 7 May 1997 21:53:52 +0200 (MET DST) | From | bert hubert <> | Subject | Re: Out of memory kernel death |
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On Wed, 7 May 1997, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
> looks through the processes and kills off the largest one. > This should be doable in Linux too... > > The problem is that the largest process is often the X server. Often > this will indeed free a lot of memory, but it's not necessarily the best > thing to do...
This is getting uglier & uglier, but let's be pragmatic and make it kill the largest process NOT called "X".
bert hubert.
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